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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!
Posted on March 17, 2009

Nibbles: Beer, Alice Walters, Soils, Coconuts

  • Cassava beer: what’s not to like?
  • A food guru speaks. We listen.
  • “By 2020, 30% of the world’s arable land may be salinated.”
  • A coconut renaissance in India?
Posted on March 13, 2009

Reading at the table

Here’s a coincidence: reviews of books on food and drink.

Posted on March 2, 2009February 27, 2009

Poppies 2 Pomegranates

Down an “Active Pretox Drink,” plant a pomegranate in Afghanistan. Local varieties, I trust.

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Fresh Nibbles

    1. Johnny Appleseed basically set up fruit tree genebanks 200 years ago.
    2. Modern fruit tree genebanks could probably learn something from Mr Appleseed.
    3. Is there a Mr Lycheeseed, I wonder?
    4. There are probably some fruit tree collections at the Ethiopian Biodiversity Institute.
    5. Saudi Arabia is betting on tree genebanks. Maybe even fruit tree genebanks.
    6. All genebanks need to share their data, according to the guy in charge of helping European genebanks share their data.
    7. Can you put a value on genebanks? Should you?

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