- Susan Bragdon and others on what Trump’s agricultural trade war with China really means.
- Meanwhile, in Tucson…
- What we need is Smart Foods.
- The cheese history video we’ve all been waiting for.
- Wild eggplants at WorldVeg.
Nibbles: New crops, Coffee threats, Ancient Sagittaria, Forage breeding, Chinese bananas
- The future of food is different plants. Can live with that.
- Like wapato?
- As long as coffee is still in the mix.
- That mean we won’t need forages? Surely not.
- Maybe we can also grow the same plants, but better.
Nibbles: ICBA, Samoan bananas, Lost crops, Old chenopod, Tree seeds, Online course, Data viz, Olive polyculture
- Crops on a saline drip.
- A hero is collecting all the banana varieties of America Samoa.
- Something similar, but in Arizona.
- How to collect tree seeds, the right way.
- Exceedingly old chenopod crop. A real Eastern Agricultural Complex outlier.
- Feeding a Hungry Planet: The Online Course.
- Strait is the way to data visualization.
- Forget milk, it’s olives and honey.
Nibbles: Magic beans et al., Avocado etymology, Honey please, Pig maps, Banana pics, Commons, Diet footprint, Sparing/sharing, Old caviar, Old whiskey, Potato wild relatives, Cassava breeding, Apple double, Ancient potatoes, Ancient grapes, African cooking, Native American craft beer, Agricultural heritage site, Aboriginal biodiversity, Svalbard 10th, Alpaca calendar.
- Telegraph op-ed on agricultural biodiversity. Yeah, you read that right.
- No, avocado does not come from the Aztec’s word for testicles. It’s the other way around.
- Why honey is a keeper.
- Mapping the hell out of pigs.
- Photo database to help tell bananas apart.
- Deconstructing the Tragedy of the Commons.
- The C footprint of your diet.
- “We can spare 50 percent and share the rest.”
- Cave man caviar.
- Whiskey with that?
- Potato wild relatives and food security.
- Cassava and food security. No word on its wild relatives.
- Wales finds a new apple.
- Maybe someone will take a cool picture of it.
- Potatoes were always for the masses. Ok, but not sure anyone ever thought otherwise, though.
- Grapes, on the other hand…
- The cuisines of Africa get their shot.
- Some of those will go well with craft beer.
- Agricultural heritage list gets saffron and argan. Bet they go together well.
- Maybe wild kiang tea will get there too someday.
- Or the Aboriginal Australians. Not really agriculturalists, but still.
- Is this alpaca exploitation? Maybe you can take the promotion of agricultural biodiversity too far.
- Will the Svalbard Global Seed Vault qualify one day? Ten years on, still going strong. And return to top.
Nibbles: MERL, Jamon, Paddy, Lucerne, Spare/share, MAS
- The world’s best museum gets a little better.
- Really expensive ham.
- Indian university sets up rice genebank.
- Pre-breeding alfalfa in China to prepare it for climate change.
- “We can spare 50 percent and share the rest.”
- Marker assisted selection explained by someone who should know.