- Adventures in Food No. 1: Camel milk chocolate.
- Adventures in Food No. 2: Hawaiian Chili Water.
- Adventures in Food No. 3: Beef.
- Adventures in Food No. 4: Fruits from abandoned orchards.
Nibbles: Funding, Cow Gods, Ãœber Bee, Rice, Bushmeat, Oaks
- $50 million for climate change. Must be some for agricultural biodiversity. Via, which has the application forms.
- How the Egyptians came to venerate cattle.
- Building a better bee.
- Official US rice harvest forecasts 20% too high. Chinese comment: “Without rice, even the cleverest housewife cannot cook.”
- How about without bushmeat?
- IUCN lists endangered oaks. Know any ex situ collections? Tell IUCN!
Nibbles: Slow Food, Fonio, Origin of agriculture cubed, Domestication, Beer, Medicinal plants,
- Survival of the Tastiest. Via.
- Fonio Power.
- Tuberculosis linked to agriculture.
- Women’s caries linked to agriculture.
LowerHigher probability of reaching reproductive maturity linked to agriculture.- Dienekes discusses dog and cattle domestication papers.
- The African roots of medicine.
- Beer can be good for you. Who thought otherwise?
Nibbles: Poland, Aguaje, Climate Change, Seed Law, Apples, Seed Secretariat
- Growing a new agriculture in Poland.
- After açai? Aguaje!
- Hector Mongi is heading to a CTA seminar on Implications of Climate Change for Sustainable Agriculture. Hope he blogs it.
- “Anti-farmer” seed law in Pakistan.
- “Look,” he says. “This was an orchard.”
- Wonderful photos of autumn; agricultural biodiversity prominent.
- Afghanistan’s National Seed Secretariat opens, re-opens hornets’ nest?
Nibbles: Link, Mango, Chickens, Apples, Urban, Aquaculture, More chickens
- Our latest link. Mas du Diable in France.
- The history of mango in Florida discussed.
- Historic poultry publication.
- Did I hear somebody say English apples are not very interesting? Via.
- A wheat crop grows in Manhattan.
- Hands-on aquaculture.
- Animal farm.