- Hard times for tea in Kenya. Believe me, I know, the mother-in-law never stops going on about it.
- Agroecology, HuffPost piece and video.
- Lessons on sustainable forest food harvesting from India.
- Fixing Prunus africana harvesting: saying it is easier than doing it. Should have asked the Indians.
- Studying weed.
- Young people don’t like tequila. Farming its raw material, that is. Should maybe switch to weed? No, wait…
- Weird Biblical food.
- Did we miss this thing on perennial cereals when it first came out?
- Nutritional composition of wheat hasn’t changed in 150 years. Not sure if that good or bad. What will happen when it goes perennial?
Agroecology [red rag to a bull]
It is starting to smack of agricultural protectionism: “We’ll do the billion dollar exports, you do agroecology”.
She says there is a need to restrict corporations: “… from moving production freely to other countries where they avoid tax, labor, and environmental regulations.”
`Food First’ (the book of 1977) claimed: ‘At least 40 percent of all imported food that directly competes with United States farm production comes from underdeveloped countries.’ (p. 408).
Both written in the sea breezes blowing off San Francisco Bay.