- NY Botanical Garden launches summer Edible Garden celebration.
- Thingy for getting more syrup out of maples invented.
- Farmer floods his fields on purpose.
- Insights into tomato late-blight resistance. Do try and keep up!
- A very English guerrilla gardener.
- Pictures of weird fruits and vegetables.
- Russian starters. Uhm, I spot a trend.
- The future of aquaculture: giant robotic roaming cages.
- Saving California’s Sebastopol Gravenstein apple.
- “Zeytinburnu Medicinal Plant Garden, opened in 2005, is Turkey’s first and only medicinal plant garden.”
- Something else has it in for bees: Chinese hornets.
Nibbles: Tofu, Pluon, Community gardens, Indian drought, Trees, Chicks, rare breeds
- Tofu, anyone?
- Plumcot, anyone?
- Guerrilla gardening, everyone!
- Green Revolution breadbasket drying up. ICRISAT has the answer. Well, sort of.
- BBC has a different answer. Trees can keep people alive in times of drought.
- More semi-naked chicks, this time in South Africa.
- Naked or otherwise, eat them to save them, with the American Livestock Breeds Conservancy.
Nibbles: Peaches, Education, Water, Food safety
- Shades of gray — local is good — in the organic vs conventional sterility. Yay!
- Lawyers wannabe farmers. They’ll need this font.
- Bartenders wannabe farmers too.
- Well 2.0 — mobile phones to control irrigation.
- Mango seeds source of biocides.
Hard graft for Pluots
Rhizowen noted that it is possible to buy at least one kind of Pluot® in Europe. Graines Baumaux offers the variety Flavor Supreme® for €26.70. This is the same Graines Baumaux that initiated a prosecution of seedsavers (and merchants) Kokopelli Association because, by failing to register varieties, Kokopelli enjoyed an “unfair trading advantage”.
It would be very remiss of me to suggest that one could almost certainly easily graft a Pluot onto a normal plum rootstock, or even a dwarfing rootstock, if one were so minded.
Nibbles: Biofuels, Nuts, Homegardens, Urban Ag, Fruit
- Maized and confused. The Economist looks at ethanol. Jeremy says: great headline.
- Would Cassava be any better? The post doesn’t even consider the question.
- Is it nuts to grow almonds in California and ship them to Vietnam for processing and packaging?
- This project aims to better understand the levels of agrobiodiversity found in homegardens. Yes, but in the UK?
- [A] gold mine of useful resources for city farmers.
- … a visionary pomologist, a fruit scientist, a species of practical rapturist … Wow!