Category: Featured

Jacob points out:

“The retail price in Russia today is lower for a liter of vodka than a liter of milk.”

Yikes.

Evil Fruit Lord on “better” tomatoes:

There are a couple of disturbing factual issues I have with the SciAm article (I hope Steve Tanksley is being misquoted or quoted out of context, because I generally regard him as some one who knows what he’s talking about).

Read the entire comment to discover what those “disturbing factual issues” are.

Amy Goldman on Top tomatoes totted up:

Thanks for the mention of my work with tomatoes. I wasn’t contacted for the Mother Earth article. Some of my favorite favorites did make the Top Twenty (including Orange Banana, Amish Paste, BIg Rainbow, Black Krim, Aunt Ruby’s, Opalka); of course, I’ve got many other favorites.

Indeed she has, as this slideshow shows.

EJ on Zoos in Trouble:

Another reason that growing seeds in gardens and seed exchanges as well as raising the animals we need on working farms is so important. Once we give away our heritage it is at the mercy of fickle funders.

P Russo points out that

There is an interactive USDA plant hardiness zone map for the continental United States. And another map using USDA zone designations for the United Kingdom.

The map in question is the old map, and we’ll have to see whether they will update it when the new one comes out. The website is interesting in that it also includes distribution maps for a large number of native trees of North America.