- Map your own ecosystem services.
- Diane’s Garden: the story of the world’s largest breadfruit collection.
- Oneida people rediscover their traditional white corn varieties.
- White folks discover Ethiopian grain. “Teff is tasty, cute, expensive, temperamental, and enigmatic.”
Nibbles: Mutton, Vegetaballs, Orchids
- Why real farming needs great cooking. Upland mutton? I’d eat that.
- Down-your-throat vegetarianism. Justine bouche? I’d eat that.
- Orchid cuisine in Bhutan. Olachotho? I’d eat that.
Nibbles: Cupuaçu, Policies
Nibbles: Satellites, Nutmeg, Thanksgiving food, Fungi, Moroccan wine
- Farming from space.
- (Part of) the history of nutmeg.
- “Eat Like a Pilgrim.”
- Biggest fungal collection in the world created.
- Loss of indigenous grape varieties not holding Moroccan winemakers back.
Nibbles: Quince, Coffee, Chocolate, Nutrition, Africa
- Speaking of Cinderella fruits, quince gets a good going over.
- Coffee prices and more — from the market marker’s mouth. h/t cas-ip.
- Some chocolate might help distressed coffee growers.
- IFPRI milking its Millions Fed. We highlight Improving diet quality and micronutrient nutrition and The mungbean transformation diversifying crops, defeating malnutrition.
- China gets cracking in Mozambique. Maybe they’ll be waking up exhausted seeds.