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Posted on April 2, 2009

Nibbles: Mopane, Evolution, Cacao

  • Food shopping in Harare includes dried caterpillars by the sackful. Luigi says: “Yum”.
  • Carnival of Evolution #10 at The Oyster’s Garter. Jeremy says: “Yum”.
  • Ecological cacao. We all say: “Yum”.
Posted on April 2, 2009

Nibbles: Mopane, Evolution, Cacao

  • Food shopping in Harare includes dried caterpillars by the sackful. Luigi says: “Yum”.
  • Carnival of Evolution #10 at The Oyster’s Garter. Jeremy says: “Yum”.
  • Ecological cacao. We all say: “Yum”.
Posted on March 30, 2009March 30, 2009

Nibbles: Soil diversity, Coffee, Ants, Haskap, Biochar

  • “Spreading antibiotics in the soil affects microbial ecosystems“. No shit.
  • Drink more (Rwandan) coffee. What about the other coffee countries?
  • Cane toad nemesis: meat ants. Eeyew.
  • 1st Virtual International Scientific Conference On Lonicera caerulea L. Via .
  • The biochar backlash. Oliver snips and links.
Posted on March 23, 2009

Happy birthday to me!

And thanks to Charlotte for a present which brings together two pretty cool bits of agrobiodiversity.
cannabis

Posted on March 21, 2009

Nibbles: Coconut, Gene flow

  • Pacific coconuts need replanting. Quick, alert the media!
  • Bees don’t just fly down the rows. Quick, alert the media!

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Fresh Nibbles

    1. Agriculture is bad for natural ecosystems. But great for maps, you have to admit.
    2. Greens are good for you. And this is a great roundup of the latest scholarship on brassica evolution, domestication and diversity. You’ll find most of the paper quoted in past Brainfoods.
    3. Grains are great. Especially with greens.
    4. Thank goodness for household seed banking. Especially in conjunction with the formal kind.
    5. All so we can breed a better peanut. And cut down more natural ecosystem?
    6. No, there’s community genebanks for that too…

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