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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. AI doesn’t recognize tropical agriculture very well.
    2. So presumably it can’t easily be used in assessing climate change impacts in agricultural heritage systems? FAO has some ideas on how to do it.
    3. Maybe rice heritage systems can be used to make cheese.
    4. I bet Andean blueberry (Vaccinium floribundum) goes great with rice cheese.
    5. But if not, heritage apples will probably do.
    6. The Hungarian genebank is hoping to inject heritage grains into non-heritage agricultural systems. AI and FAO unavailable for comment.
    7. Maybe AI can help with the mystery of this old seed collection at the Natural History Museum, London.

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