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November 30, 2007November 30, 2007

Radio interview with “apple detective”

A man who finds “the world’s rarest species of fruit;” neither Linneaus nor BBC’s scientist available for comment.

November 29, 2007

Is it aronia or sarcasm?

Aronia berries set to take off. In Iowa. Maybe.

November 29, 2007

Unconventional wine-making

Grapes? We don’t need no stinkin’ grapes. To make wine, that is.

November 21, 2007November 21, 2007

Tasting apple diversity

Apples! Hundreds of ’em! Yum.

November 15, 2007

Breadfruit proceedings

Great news from Diane Ragone. The proceedings of the I International Symposium on Breadfruit Research and Development are out!

1. Times of India says “India needs a new doomsday seed vault.” Why not just use the one already there in Svalbard?
2. Meanwhile, women in the Sundarban are doing it for themselves.
3. Maybe it’s community doomsday seed vaults that India needs?
4. Fiji’s cassava is facing a doomsday of its own.
5. Georgia — the country — is working on a documentary on crop diversity which will no doubt include their seed deposit in Svalbard.
6. Kenya has a pretty good community genebanks video of its own.
7. Nigeria is all over crop diversity. Not just once, but twice.
8. Coffee prices going up? Can you imagine what will happen if we don’t conserve enough of its diversity?
9. Want more examples of the coolness of crop diversity and its guardians? Slow Food has your back.
10. La Via Campesina needs to encouragement either, where “peasant seeds” and their guardians are concerned.
11. Even the World Economic Forum wants in on the act.
12. And yet the seed sector seems…reluctant?
13. Good job Genesys is getting faster, eh?
Published on June 2, 2025