- The Smallholder on Svalbard. Martha unavailable for comment.
- Jeremy’s latest bit of blarney.
- Tasty toms.
- A bunch more rice genomes. Wait, didn’t we Brainfood this? Of course we did, ages ago.
- Avocado tattoos?
- 3D seeds. So beautiful, so useless.
- Trees as technology.
- Like galip nut, for instance.
- My indigenous knowledge is your climate change adaptation.
- Maharashtra: Malnutrition down, high blood pressure up.
- Could probably still do with some biofortification.
- The botany of chia.
- ISBER Best Practices for biological repositories: The Webinar.
- Meet ODAP.
Illustrated guide to the landraces of Ecuador
The Field Museum’s 800-odd field guides cover a whole bunch of stuff, from the plants of the Araripe-Apodi National Park in Brazil to the bats of Mindanao. But I’m pretty sure there’s only one on landraces, and that covers Ecuador. It’s just out, and it includes photos of about a hundred traditional cereal, legume and root crop varieties.
Nibbles: Wild wheat & rice genomes, Lost American crops, Bread Lab, Tea symposium, Burping cows, Australian botanist, Ecuadorian landrace pics, Red listing, Fermentation PhD, Cheese rind microbes, HRH reception
- Goat grass genome to the rescue.
- No, some other weedy grass genomes to the rescue!
- Weeds could actually be lost crops.
- Clif Bar endows Bread Lab.
- Symposium on the future of tea. Mother-in-law alerted.
- You’ll need milk for that tea: breeding cattle for more production and less burping.
- Aunty Fran Bodkin: Australian botany hero.
- Field Museum field guide to Ecuadorian landraces. Of all things.
- Learn about red-listing.
- Study the microbial communities of cabbage leaves.
- Cheese rind has complex microbial communities too.
- So, anyways, this was fun.
Nibbles: Sustainable wheat, Bananacoin, Tuscan agrobiodiversity, Fig conservation, Foraging beer, Wizard vs Prophet, SDGs, Harlan Symposium
- General Mills goes all sustainable. But the genebanks?
- The future of bananas is banana futures. But the genebanks?
- Agrobiodiversity in Tuscany: The App. Who needs genebanks.
- “Correia, a 59-year-old third-generation Delta resident, has one of the most diverse collections of the common fig, Ficus carica, in the world.” Put that in an app.
- The two approaches to feeding 10 billion people. Only two?
- “Eradicating hunger and ensuring food security is a bottom-line requirement for achieving sustainable development and well-being.” Problem is, it’s not the top priority.
- Otherwise orphan crops wouldn’t be orphans.
- Foraged beer is a thing. A very cool thing, and you can probably use orphan crops too.
- A place to discuss all of the above? The Third Jack R. Harlan International Symposium.
Nibbles: Sequencing Davos, WPC 2018, German spuds, Martha’s Excellent Adventure, C4F video, Hawaiian varieties, Seed Book
- Blockchain for ABS touted at Davos. The Economist is there.
- But will it be at the World Potato Congress? I’m betting no.
- But for sure some Germans will be.
- Martha Stewart will be in Svalbard.
- Crops for the Future was On the Menu.
- Culinary Breeding Network is in Hawaii. Lucky them. But would it have killed them to provide a link?
- I want to be in Lebanon.
- There are a lot of pretty seeds in Paul Smith’s new book.