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Category: Fruits and nuts

Posted on July 27, 2008

Nibbles: Flax, Pomegranates

  • Irish linen returns.
  • Evil Fruit Lord praises Pomegranate book.
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.

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Fresh Nibbles

    1. Agrobiodiversity inspires tourism in the Andes of Peru.
    2. South African fruit exporters does its (small) bit for heirloom apple conservation.
    3. Wild tea doing just fine in the Shunhuangshan National Nature Reserve in Hunan Province, China. Even when harvested by local communities. Looks great for tourism too.
    4. Native communities in Nebraska getting some support for saving and exchanging seeds.
    5. Women are in charge of chiles in Tamil Nadu.
    6. Popular Science does genebanks. At least one genebank has tourism potential, I’d say.
    7. Want to support forest landscape restoration through native tree planting in Kenya? Go to MyFarmTrees, and help keep Kenya a tourism hotspot.

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