- Strategizing about coffee. Over cappuccinos, I suspect.
- Treesilience. I like that.
- Enough with the superfoods already.
- Which is not something anybody ever called tiger nuts.
- You can now officially blame the potato for the fall of civilization.
- A really expensive cup of tea.
- Wheat blast reaches Asia.
- Crowdfunding tree conservation on Hawaii.
Nibbles: Bears loose cherry, Swiss cheese birth, Aussie genebank, Palestinian genebank, Wine genebank, Mexican maize, Beer in Israel & Germany
- Bears shit wild cherry seeds in the woods. But uphill.
- The origins of Swiss cheese. And I mean WAY back.
- The Australian Grains Genebank in the news. Well deserved too.
- Likewise the new Palestinian genebank.
- And the Bourgogne grapevine genebank too, since we’re at it.
- Saving popcorn.
- Jesus’ beer recreated. But would it pass the German purity law?
Nibbles: Drying seeds, Saving citrus, Shakespeare’s food, Ganja double, TPP, Aurochs art, Coffee diversity, Biofortification, Training, Breeding booklet
- Zeolite finds its genebank niche. Remember when we blogged about it?
- The USDA citrus genebank at Riverside gets the podcast treatment.
- Shakespeare, because it’s the 400th anniversary of his death: food and animals.
- Weed, because weed: taxonomy and breeding. Could literally apply to any other crop on earth.
- What will the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) do to farm-saved seeds?
- Bring back the aurochs!
- Barista Magazine on coffee diversity. In other news, there’s a Barista Magazine.
- The chemistry of banana carotenoids.
- Master of Arts in Food Studies in San Francisco! What’s not to like.
- From plant to crop: The past, present and future of plant breeding. Nice booklet.
Nibbles: Deforestation, Mint patent, Weed footprint, Heirloom breeds & vars, Superfood hype latest
- If we eat more meat, only 15% of possible scenarios lead to a maintenance of forest area.
- Oregon mint breeders ready to come to blows.
- The dark side of yesterday’s sustainable ganja Nibble.
- The Smithsonian does heirlooms.
- Enough with the superfoods already.
Nibbles: Vavilov double, Huge avocado, African urban ag, Agarwood threat, Double coffee, Sequencing beer, Sloane ranges, Chinese bees, Gendered breeding, Access to seeds/meds, Genebank funding, Quinoa prices, Organic ganja
- VIR on Atlas Obscura, with pic goodness courtesy of yours truly. And on the same site, something Vavilov would have approved of: a very diverse Tajik apple orchard.
- A new avocado to conjure by.
- Urban agriculture won’t cut the mustard.
- Trees that named Fragrant Harbour disappearing.
- The downside of coffee. But never fear, there’s a strategy coming!
- The beernome!
- Happy birthday Sir Hans Sloane, for many botanical reasons!
- Chinese pollinators in trouble. Enough of the exclamation marks.
- Do you have any examples of “plant or animal breeding that has successfully incorporated gender considerations into its strategies and end products”? Contact these people.
- Can seeds learn from meds, policy-wise?
- Bioversity DG lobbies for genebanks.
- Get your fill of quinoa, courtesy of Jeremy.
- Sustainable pot. ‘Cause that’s the California Way, man.