Fruits and nuts

October 18, 2007October 18, 2007

Fruit species blog

Fruitspecies blogs fruit species, mostly tropical.

October 17, 2007

Adopt-a-variety

Adopt a banana variety at the Philippines genebank.

October 17, 2007October 17, 2007

A film about Michael Hamburger, poet and apple grower

Worth seeing; a poet and his pomes, on film.

October 17, 2007October 21, 2007

Fruit for free

Glenn says fruit should be cheaper. How about free?

When I’m out walking the dog I do grab the occasional loquat, or nespolo as they’re known round here, when they are in season, but I’ve never thought of getting organized.

October 16, 2007

Berry wonderful

Sea buckthorn: from the Mongolian steppe to Canada. Genghis Khan unavailable for comment.

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