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Category: Fruits and nuts

Posted on July 26, 2008

Nibbles: Afghanistan, Zucchini

  • Support for small-scale private seed enterprises in Afghanistan. Including landraces?
  • “It has no real taste of its own, piggybacking on whatever it is prepared with.”
Posted on July 25, 2008July 25, 2008

Nibbles: Health, Figs, Biocontrol, Small, Tomato

  • US to spend $2.25 million to find out whether preserving biodiversity could reduce disease. We say “what, no ag? Again?”
  • Fancy a fig?
  • Mud pot formulation brings unbelievable benefits.
  • More small is beautiful: artisanal weed. Via.
  • Meet the Tom-Anto.
Posted on July 24, 2008July 24, 2008

Nibbles: Olive oil, Soil, Heirloom varieties

  • The Real Olive Oil Story. Via.
  • Soil Atlas of Europe. Only images, though, it looks like. Via.
  • South Carolina farmers embrace heirloom crops.
Posted on July 22, 2008August 20, 2008

A tomato museum. In Tomatopolis of the World, MS

If you added together the weights of all the apples, bananas, grapes, and oranges the world eats in one year, it wouldn’t come close to the weight of all the tomatoes we consume.

Posted on July 22, 2008July 21, 2008

North America’s largest native edible fruit

What is it? Asimina triloba, apparently. There’s a workshop coming up in a couple of months, at Kentucky State. Anyone going?

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Fresh Nibbles

    1. King Charles III talks about seeds with Dr Elinor Breman of Kew’s Millennium Seed Bank and…
    2. …Cate Blanchett.
    3. Or read about it in The Economist.
    4. Or watch a nice video.
    5. The seed banks of the National Plant Germplasm System in the USA are for farmers, not just researchers.
    6. How to get stuff out of the NPGS.
    7. Laurajean Lewis: from an NPGS genebank to CIMMYT’s.
    8. I’m sure she and Chris Mujjabi will get to know each other soon.
    9. Diane Ragone: Not all genebanks are seed banks.
    10. Not a lot of breadfruits in Belgium but, surprisingly, lots of bananas.

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