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Legal niceties may help save Pavlovsk Experiment Station … … which says its cherries are doing just fine, thank you. Jeremy hard at work. Ecosystem Services and Food Security. One for later. Kew’s Garden Photographer competition closes soon. Surprise everyone, submit something edible. Satoyama Initiative explained. On top of everything else, climate change may lead …
More on the one-two fungus-virus bee-killer combo. “In the end, all the brave talk about food self-sufficiency in Asia is just nonsense; ain’t never gonna happen.” Very strategic analysis. The Resilient Gardener, by Carol Deppe. Can’t wait to get hold of this, from one of the best ever. “African governments urged to increase uptake of …
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How is Europe doing at saving its threatened plants? Paper and website available. How many crop wild relatives are threatened in Europe? I think it should be possible to work it out… Bioversity colleagues summarize their work on homegardens. Introduced plants can be useful too! Soil Association continues to quibble about need to double food …
How can you do Eggplant’s Rich History and not wonder why this generally huge, generally purple thing is called an eggplant? Domestication of the Gray Ghost Organ Pipe cactus; exceedingly complex. Oh and there’s a cool photo here. How berries protect the brain from age-related malfunction. Are you listening, Dmitry? Protect medicinal plants, says letter-writer. …
It was almost exactly 10 years ago that the whole Pavlovsk thing blew up. Time does fly. For our younger readers, that’s the Vavilov Institute’s (VIR) Pavlovsk Experimental Station, where important collections of fruits and berries are conserved in rather beautiful field genebanks. For a couple of years, these were under threat, as the land …