- Miss Hathorn plants true potato seed. Good luck.
- In the US? Got space? Grow sunflowers and count bees. Via.
- George Orwell clones Fragaria.
More complex, more interesting, more hopeful
There is simply no way to summarize Willie Smits‘ Ted Talk. It is a masterful description of putting the complexity in an agricultural ecosystem to work to solve the problems of humans and orang-utans. Just astonishing. And so much more intellectually satisfying than a simplified system. Luscious.
花見
And while on the subject of spring, what could be more redolent of Nature’s awakening after winter’s torpor than hanami (花見) — flower watching? You can do it in Washington DC, Brooklyn or Skopje. But the best place to follow the sakurazensen — the cherry blossom front — is clearly Japan. You’ve still got a few more weeks if you live in Hokkaido.
Mercato di coltivatori
Interesting to see the term “farmer’s market” — in English — being used in Italy, and not particularly for the benefit of tourists. Not sure how long it’s been in currency. I guess the concept has been around for a while.
Amy Goldman’s top tomatoes
This is the sort of thing that makes a man lose his faith in the essential random pointlessness of life.
Scientific American yesterday, published a slideshow of Amy Goldman’s favourite heirloom tomatoes on the very same day as she was writing to us about her favourite heirloom tomatoes. Spooky, or what?