- I’ve got your next five superfoods right here.
- Weakened wheats make grain go further.
- Everybody needs an interactive toolkit for crop wild relative conservation.
Nibbles: Pumpkin genomes, Crop movements, Cocoa winners
- Must be that time of year. We have pumpkin genomes
- A report from The Great Pumpkin Project, on cassava in Vietnamese rice paddies, and
- The obligatory treat: The 2017 International Cocoa Award Winners
New decade, newish look
There’ve been problems with our server. Those have been fixed, I think, but our old look is thoroughly broken as a result. I’m working on restoring some of that functional goodness. Bear with me.
p.s. Almost everything is back and working, but I need to work on the styling. Please let me know if you miss anything or something isn’t working.
Osage orange outbreak
Took me a while to retrieve the proof I knew I’d need to fully convince Luigi. Here it is:
And in case the upload process somehow mangles the EXIF data (which are there in my copy) Lat is 41.88761166666666 Long is 12.466925 and, well, that’s all you really need.
Breeding tomorrow’s heirlooms
Interesting article in Modern Farmer, on Why We Need to Revitalize Organic Seed Farming. They rounded up the usual suspects, who offer the expected explanations, none of which detracts from the importance of what some breeders are doing.
“The heirloom boom of the nineties helped people see the value of preserving seed, but they don’t understand that it can get even better,” says Selman. “Public plant breeders are creating varieties that are more resilient and more appropriate for the future.”
Lane Selman talked to me about her work with the Culinary Breeding Network for Eat This Podcast.