Luigi shared links to two recent pieces about food, conservation and airports. The first is an audio slideshow of urban gardeners who make use of land owned by the airport in St Louis, Missouri. I found it a bit fluffy — and we don’t hear directly from any of the gardeners — but there’s a place for fluff. The big question: do the gardens attract birds that might pose a threat to jets?
Birdstrike is not a problem for the other, an article about how the endangered El Segundo Blue Butterfly has made a comeback at Los Angeles airport thanks to a conservation project that hinged on providing the butterfly with its sole food plant, seacliff buckwheat (Eriogonum parviflorum). A buckwheat, eh? So, is it edible? I can’t find any evidence that it is. Or that it isn’t.
And anti-airport ag – http://www.notrag.org/#may5 – plus the possible origins of the Cox’s Orange Pippin.