- “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.
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.
Nibbles: Goats, Fowl, Goats & fowl, Bees
- Kenyans turn to dairy goats.
- Ugandans advised to turn to local chickens.
- Kenyans told: “Change your old farming methods or face starvation.” Jeremy says: “I’m confused.”
- Irish bees — rescue plan. Thanks Danny.