- Cacao comes in 10 “flavours”, not just 3.
- PDFs of pamphlets on different aspects of agricultural biodiversity from FAO.
- Diane Ragone interviewed on breadfruit.
- Something for the weekend, Mr Goat?
- Got yak milk?
- High livestock prices mean lots of livestock on the land means low biodiversity on farmland. Here comes the science.
- NatGeo video on the trouble with truffles.
Nibbles: Meat, Meet
- Visayan warty piglet eaten. Python blamed.
- Biodiversity and Agricultures: Today’s Challenges, Tomorrow’s Research for More Sustainable Farmingâ€. Can’t wait for November 5th.
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.
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.
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.