- A better Peking duck.
- Cherokee Nation makes heirloom seeds available.
- “Every degree of warming avoided prevents the loss of one in ten species from the world’s tropical and Mediterranean climates.”
Nibbles: Seed edition
- Seed stories.
- Heterogenous seeds book chapter.
- Heritage seeds in Britain book.
- Seed app. For tricot trials.
- Seed Treaty ratified in Nigeria.
Nibbles: GMO, EUGENA, Geography, Ozark food, UK seeds
- There’s more to the whole GMO thing than science.
- The European Genebank Network for Animal Genetic Resources has cool new flyers.
- Geographies of Food: The Book.
- The above applied to the Ozarks and the UK.
Nibbles: Chickpea, Rice, Potato, Open seeds, Ipomoea, Cider apples, Functional foods, Colombian seeds, Meaty diets, Coffee ritual
- Chickpea breeding in the news, if you can believe it.
- Somehow rice breeding in the news is easier to believe.
- Or potato breeding, for that matter.
- The case for public ownership of seed. Now, that would be news.
- I doubt that changing the sweet potato’s scientific name will ever be news.
- Michigan’s cider lovers round up their favourite apples.
- Visualization on how to make functional foods sustainable.
- A Colombian (seed) exchange.
- People have always eaten meat. Sure, but so what?
- Anyone for coffee?
Nibbles: Macron magic, UK Strategic Priorities Fund, Macadamia, Tepary, Nordic spuds, Diversification, Carolina rice, Couscous, Wild tobacco, Yeast diversity, Da 5 Foods
- France pushes for agricultural development. Money to follow mouth?
- Meanwhile, Britain puts its money into its own food systems.
- The macadamia is not diverse enough. Who’d have thought it.
- Couscous gets protected. Phew, ’cause it’s right on the verge of extinction, isn’t it.
- I hope tepary beans don’t become the next macadamia.
- Reviving old potatoes the Nordic way.
- Malaysia told to look beyond oil palm. To tepary and macadamia, maybe?
- Speaking of diversification, how about Laotian rice in Appalachia?
- Chasing the wild tobacco. See what I did there?
- Yeast has been domesticated by bakers into two genetic groups: industrial and artisanal sourdough.
- A history of the world in entirely the wrong 5 foods.