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October 16, 2012October 16, 2012

Nibbles: Animal abolitionism and not, Patents and not, Early agriculture, Brogdale, Soybean genes, Fancy phenotyping, Nexus principles, ICRAF databases, Transformation, Pest posters

Animal domestication is murder. Will someone tell ILRI? And the Maasai. Indian home remedies at risk from nasty patents. I guess someone has been reading the Washington Post. Agriculture started as a response to the need for large amounts of beer for feasts. Can’t think of a better reason. All the more weird that it …

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June 29, 2012June 29, 2012

Brogdale celebrates its Diamond Jubilee

Tom La Dell, joint director of Brogdale Collections, has a piece in the Fruit Forum pointing out that this year is not just the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee, but Brogdale fruit collection’s as well. Public access to the Defra owned National Fruit Collection is managed by Brogdale Collections (at no cost to Defra) and we are …

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September 14, 2007February 10, 2014

More Brogdale discussion

Following my post pointing to a recent article in the Guardian which worried about the fate of the UK’s National Fruit Collection at Brogdale, I’ve been alerted to the discussion that’s been going on at the Fruit Forum, “a webspace for fruit enthusiasts.” Stay tuned… LATER: See also Lorenzo’s comment to Danny’s post for more information …

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May 31, 2016May 31, 2016

As American as apples

Gayle Volk and Adam Henk of USDA recently published a fascinating article on “Historic American Apple Cultivars: Identification and Availability.” Gayle kindly agreed to summarize it for us. Thanks, Gayle. Oh, and by the way, if you like old pictures of old apples (and other fruits), there’s a mesmerizing Twitter feed for you. Apples have …

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February 8, 2016February 8, 2016

The cider apple rules

I really didn’t give the short piece on the conservation of cider apple varieties in England a second thought when it first came out on the BBC a few days ago. Hundreds of varieties of rare cider apples are being planted across England after being donated to the National Trust by a collector. … They …

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