Nibbles: Coffee, Barley, Sheep, Diary, Ancient chocolate, South African wine, Pleistocene Gibraltar, Roads

Coffee: The World in Your Cup exhibit. I found it at Grist.
Making beer with less water. At last a worthy use for germplasm collections.
Rare Breeds Survival Trust take over sheep semen archive. Ah, those fun-loving Brits!.
Illinois, 1937: farm diary in twitter form.
Have chocolate, will travel.
February 2, 1659: “…today, praise be to God, wine was pressed for the first time from Cape grapes.”
Neanderthals hung out with — and hung on thanks to — biodiversity.
Yield is not enough.