- Lecture on the enset (and other things) gardens of Ethiopia coming up in November.
- Book on the potato and governance tries to rescue small subsistence farmers from “the enormous condescension of posterity.”
- (Really) ancient Americans may have smoked around the campfire. Tobacco, people, just tobacco.
- Byzantine era wine factory found in Israel. Pass the bottle.
- Meanwhile, half a world away, Indigenous Americans were using their own grapes in their own way.
- Farmers and conservation of crop diversity.
Nibbles: True to the Land, Marcapata Ccollana, Yield Systems
- Book on 65,000 years of Australian food.
- Many thousands of years of agrobiodiversity protected in Peru.
- But who needs all that when we have AI to phenotype wheat spikes in the field.
Nibbles: Wild potato, Pottery & food, Maltese, Denisse, Feeding Ourselves, Species concept
- Ancient potato.
- Ancient pottery.
- Ancient dog breed?
- Oldish botanical illustrations.
- Old argument: diversification or specialization?
- Even older argument: what’s a species?
Nibbles: Genebanks everywhere
- Genebanks on the BBC.
- A genebank for the Kahnawa’kehró:non.
- A genebank for Maharashtra.
- A (grapevine) genebank genotyped.
- A (potato) genebank used.
- A new tool for (coconut) genebanks.
Nibbles: Ancient Levant, Guinness cherry, NBPGR, Maize in Africa
- More than milk and honey.
- A very large cherry.
- A very large genebank.
- Let them eat sorghum, Zambian president says.
- That’s not an option for the Hopi.