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Nibbles: Tree seeds, Tepary beans, USDA trials, Seed Savers Exchange, China genebank, Nepal indigenous crops, Giant yams, Brogdale, Old apples, AI taxonomy, FEED database, IPBES Nexus report, Business & biodiversity

Collecting tree seeds properly and respectfully is not easy. No word on how easy it is to collect tepary beans respectfully. Helping the USDA with their germplasm evaluations, on the other hand, is a breeze. Any tepary beans? Seed Savers Exchange makes conserving seeds look easy. Spoiler alert: it isn’t. It seems to be very …

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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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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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