- A shaman’s grave from the verge of agriculture.
- Mushroom improves violin’s sound.
- Good news for California’s livestock.
- Linking climate and the rise and fall of China’s dynasties.
- I love pictures of gigantic fish, don’t you? Not farmed, thankfully.
- Making butter.
Obaby!
But why do Americans vote on the first Tuesday of November anyway. For agricultural reasons, of course.
Nibbles: Seeds, Seeds, Semen, Seeds, Source, Souris, Sustainability
- Botswana’s main seed supplier pushes hybrid seeds.
- Ethiopia lists its genebank holdings.
- Scientific American on consequences of lack of livestock diversity.
- Creating tomorrow’s heirlooms, Bishop salutes amateur breeders.
- New Agriculturist on bananas et al.
- Climate change bad for fish too.
- Black rats bad for other rats too.
- Sustainable wine.
Nibbles: Chickens, Realpolitik, Apples, Kew, Maize, Local food
- Chicken wild relatives to rescue breeds.
- Politics as theatre as politics: report from Terra Madre.
- Little shrines to bottled water … Levazza peddling an industrial and inferior product: more from Terra Madre.
- Season of mists and apple biodiversity. Thanks Sarah.
- The wonder that is Kew Gardens and its Millennium Genebank.
- What’s wrong with the maize seed sector in Africa?
- Some reasons to buy local food, though maybe not ten as advertised.
Assyrian food culture in the Old and New Worlds
The BBC has an interesting photo essay on wine-making’s struggle for survival in Turkey among Assyrian Christians. Interestingly, a scion of the Assyrian community is something of a food guru in the Bay Area. Expatriates again…