- Mosutlhwane? Rice from sorghum. Botswana goes for self-sufficiency.
- Sustainable baobab.
- Growing caffeine-free coffee.
- And, coincidentally, a blog post on wild coffees from Madagascar.
Nibbles: Coffea, Tequila, Livestock wild relatives, Rice wine, Vit. D, Statistics
- Wild coffee studied; report from Madagascar.
- Adding value to tequila. Lots of value.
- Vietnamese farmers go wild.
- Vietnamese farmers get drunk.
- All about Vitamin D.
- “…cranberries are the neglected stepchild of the season.”
- What does that make the turkey?
- Gates Foundation moves into space. Via.
ICRAF publishes molecular markers manual
Wanna use molecular markers to help you manage tropical trees? ICRAF has the book for you. Thanks, Ian.
Betting on Obama
Robert appears to be a betting man. He reckons Obama will be growing Eruca sativa on the White House lawn ere long. Me, I’m not so sure, although I do hope that Roger the Gardener’s wildest dreams do come true. I don’t know enough about this betting lark though. Is there somewhere that will offer genuine odds on rocket aimed at the White House lawn? 1
Meanwhile, let’s not forget where this all began.
Nibbles: Wild food, Sisal, Cucurbits, Carnival, Rice blight
- Zimbabwean take to wild foods, and not in a good way.
- “It was the afternoon of my eighty-first birthday, and I was in bed with my catamite when Ali announced that the archbishop had come to see my sisal flooring.”
- Gourds+Halloween=Jawdropping Creativity.
- Tangled Bank 117.
- “Terror agent” listing for Xanthomanas oryzae blights US rice research.