Here’s an interview with the makers of the documentary King Corn, which is partly about how maize “covers the food landscape,” as well as the actual landscape, in the US.
US National Agricultural Library blog
This could be fun: InfoFarm is a blog at the US National Agricultural Library. via IAALD.
Teaching kids about fungi
Crop books reviewed
More about food and farming from bookforum.com, including links to reviews of books on the history of citrus and of beans. Meanwhile, iafrica.com has features on the potato in history and the potato and politics to remind us that 2008 will be the International Year of the Potato.
King Corn
New documentary traces fate of US maize harvest.