Indian farmer shows breeders a thing or two.
The story of the St Bernard
There’s a stuffed St Bernard called Barry in a museum in Berne.
The Vanishing of the Bees
Colony Collapse Disorder gets a documentary. Maybe.
South Africa turning its back on local greens?
Timbuktu Chronicles pointed me to an interesting allAfrica feature on the organic vegetable revolution sweeping around the edges of Cape Town under the leadership of some formidable grandmothers. Great that such a community-based movement is taking off and making a difference, of course. But it was a bit disappointing for me not to see much evidence in the text and photos that indigenous African vegetables are included in the mix. I know there are dedicated people promoting this neglected agrobiodiversity in South Africa. I’ve worked with some of them. Local leafy greens have become mainstream in countries like Kenya in the past few years: you can buy them nicely packaged in supermarkets now, which was certainly not the case when I lived there in the mid-90s. Is that not happening in South Africa? If not, why not? I hope someone out there can tell us.
Cattalo complicating plans to restore Great Plains
More on the bison‘s polluted genome.