Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog
Crops, livestock, microbes, pollinators, wild relatives, agroecosystems, foodways …
Onkel Bob on Show Yourself (not that it has any relevance to that):
Why didn’t Turks create the same garden scheme as the Persians? Is it their pastoral roots? One would think they would want citrus fruits in their winter pastures. Even after settling in Anatolia, (what we currently call Turkey) the Seljuks and subsequent Turkish migrations never developed the garden schemes we see in SW Asia/Levant.
Yvonne, on The Food Crisis: Déjà Vu:
In these times, when desertification, civil unrest, natural disasters and other crises, force groups or families from traditional or stationary plots of ground, they can still feed themselves IF we provide a growing structure that does not REQUIRE that plot of land.
Of course, there’s a bit more to it than that, but still …
From Penny:
The task force was created at the urging of taro farmers. It’s job is to help focus local research, policy and agency support where it is reallly needed in order to revitalize taro as a crop, revive cultivar diversity in the field, and increase education and understanding of taro and farmers needs in Hawaii.
Robert, on Nibble This, asks:
Why is it – you think – that some peoples go outrageously overboard with chili consumption (to my taste, that is), while others are quite careful in keeping the spiciness under control. Chance? Human genetics? Alternative addictives?
Good question.
Alan R. Bishop on Seed Exchange is Evil:
We are preventers of bio-terror if we are anything, we are keeping the food supply clean, the environment catered to, and the hopes and dreams of humanity alive and well, as Willie Wonka said “We are the music makers, we are the dreamers of the dreams!”
We are?