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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. Africa needs good forest seeds.
    2. And genetic monitoring of the resulting plantings, probably.
    3. The Caribbean also wants quality seed, and thinks a mobile seed bank is the way to get it.
    4. The only mobile things about New Zealand’s genebank are its collectors.
    5. A very mobile donation to the UK’s vegetable genebank.
    6. Nothing very mobile about Slow Beans 2025, but that’s the point.
    7. The long journey of honeysuckle.

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