Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog
Agrobiodiversity is crops, livestock, foodways, microbes, pollinators, wild relatives …
This video, and the chocolate, may not be to everybody’s taste … but I liked it. I haven’t tasted the chocolate.
Now, though, would those same people please devote some of their attention to the men and women who grow the beans and do the initial processing.
Rachel Laudan does a nice job in her latest post of balancing the rather silly Wall Street Journal article of a couple of days ago which suggested that breadfruit, an important staple in the Pacific for hundreds of years, is “inedible.” Read the comments to that article too. Full disclosure: I like the stuff.
Remember that story I linked to a while back about how Sikh immigrants to northern Italy are keeping alive the art of making parmigiano? Remember how it was in German? Ok, well, now you can read two versions of it in English. But it’s still pretty cool.
Pollin8r (geddit?)! An “open access photo bank of heirloom produce” and “an inventive new web-based project … that promises to connect heirloom-produce loving eaters to farmers willing to grow heritage produce — all with just the click of a mouse”. Bring it on? Bring it up?
Please, sir, what is an heirloom?