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Category: Livestock

Posted on October 4, 2008

Nibbles: Meat, Meet

  • Visayan warty piglet eaten. Python blamed.
  • Biodiversity and Agricultures: Today’s Challenges, Tomorrow’s Research for More Sustainable Farming”. Can’t wait for November 5th.
Posted on October 3, 2008October 3, 2008

Nibbles: Heirlooms, Seed, Ethnic cuisine, Meat, Sheep

  • “The ‘Heirloom Tomato Salad’ was made with a mix of Sweet 100 and Sungold tomatoes — both of which are hybrid varieties.”
  • FARMER’S NOTEBOOK: The importance of preserving native seed varieties.
  • Increasing culinary diversity in the US.
  • Eat a kangaroo and save the planet. No? How about moose then? You can have too much culinary diversity, perhaps.
  • Climate change: the silver lining.
Posted on October 2, 2008October 2, 2008

Nibbles: Polyploids, Testicular cooking, Genes, Mongoose, Pears

  • Parade of Polyploids! I know, but that’s what it says on the site.
  • Balls.
  • Brilliant, brilliant, brilliant: The Joy of Genes … Illustrated. Teachers, use it!
  • How mongooses got to Spain.
  • Pears that look like apples.
Posted on September 29, 2008September 29, 2008

Nibbles: Tamarind, Fire, Aquaculture

  • A single tree that is also a genebank? Holy tamarind.
  • Looking to kangaroo bones for evidence of Aboriginal terraforming.
  • African fish farming links. Via.
Posted on September 23, 2008September 23, 2008

Nibbles: New Agriculturist, Sheep, Jatropha, Carrots

  • All about potatoes.
  • Mutant sheep to attack Australia.
  • An Indian Jatropha genebank in the news. And a study to tell us where to collect more using some really cool software.
  • The ‘Purple Dragon’ carrots are coming up in a variety of colours but mostly not purple.

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Fresh Nibbles

    1. Dr Fiona Hay, seed scientist, on why we need genebanks, including seed banks.
    2. Prof. Richard Ellis retires. A genebank legend, as Fiona would probably agree.
    3. FAO exhibition goes From Seeds to Foods. By way of genebanks, no doubt.
    4. And peasants, of course. No, it’s not a derogatory word, settle down.
    5. Can Green Revolution breeding approaches (and genebanks) help peasants deal with climate change?
    6. Even genebanks need a back-up plan though.
    7. New Mexico genebank helps out Danish chef.
    8. The history of the Concord grape and its foxiness. Chefs intrigued.
    9. The history of Aport and Amasya apples. No foxiness involved, as far as I know. Genebanks? Probably.
    10. The origin of caffeine. Now do foxiness.
    11. Where did collards come from anyway? No, not genebanks. Bloody historians, always re-writing history.

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