- Today’s Nibbles is a Kenya edition. Just because.
- But we’ll start with an African foodie revolution that is passing that country by.
- Cattle need diverse foods too, so don’t neglect those forbs, Kenyans.
- A young Kenyan turns to vegetable growing. Not, alas, of the traditional kind. Yet.
- Well, he better get a move on, because it says here people are after his seeds.
- Seeds are what the traditional medicine industry could do with.
- I guess there’s always litchis.
- Wonder what they’ll do to land use patterns.
- But will there ever be perennial sorghum?
Perennial sorghum: There already is perennial sorghum round Lake Turkana in Northern Kenya. It is harvested as grain and then cut for fodder every three months or so and grows from the base for a reputed 15 times (which I think is more than most commercial sugar cane). One problem is keeping livestock off. The grain is used for beer produced in oil-drum breweries.