Brainfood: Olive oil composition, Storing rice, Fair Trade, Red List, Farmer seed systems, Dipterocarp genetic structure, Italian bread wheat, Nepal crop diversity, Rice origins

Nibbles: Tomato diversity, Coffee trial, Basque genetics, Water and ag, Heirlooms galore, 3 trillion trees, Agroforestry, Old oats, IP in ag, Food companies and CC, Wheat Initiative, Crop game, Eggplant breeding, E African drought

Nibbles: Plant names, Tomato trifecta, Amaranth, Corn wars, Wild lettuce, Dying, Indian ag, Chocographic, Root symbionts, Rehabilitation, Mesquite, Extreme weather, Saviour plants, Pawpaw, Japanese rice, Coffee museum, Caribbean early ag, Amazonian livelihoods, Vislak on corn

Nibbles: Kinky crops, Hot pepper, Cary Fowler, Gin history, Open data, Quaker food, QPM in Ethiopia, Botany app, Old seeds, New tomato

  • Why aren’t there more crops among the orchids?
  • This pepper is not so much a crop as a weapon of mass destruction.
  • Now here’s a crop. New tomato has taste, storability, looks. But I think it’s dating.
  • Maize with cool amino acids reaches Ethiopia. Must have walked there.
  • Really old squash seeds.
  • Cary Fowler on the Weather Channel. You heard me.
  • Quakers have an opinion on the right to food and climate change. Well, why shouldn’t they? They also have a UN office, but that’s another story. No word on whether they made the Weather Channel.
  • Ok, so apparently the answer is data. Says a data company. And open data at that. Quakers nonplussed.
  • Botanizing in N or S America? There’s an app for that.
  • The rise and rise of gin. And I certainly need one.

Nibbles: Native American foods, Responsible soy maps, Ocean blue, Social academics, Kenyan vendors, Coffee pix, Local food takedown, Ancient horses, Kava bar, Plantae, Root fungi