- Missouri has been important to wine. Very important.
- And China to beer.
- 7 things that are important for future food systems. Spoiler alert: diversity underpins all 7.
- Why biodiversity is important to diets. And vice versa.
- Why biodiversity is important to agriculture. And vice versa.
- No worries, now anyone can have a genebank.
Nibbles: New Roots for Restoration Biology Integration Institute, Olive genebanks, Saving old grapevines
- New institute to restore ecosystems, including agricultural ones, gets money.
- Some olive-based ecosystems certainly need restoration, good thing there are genebanks.
- Sometimes, restoring ecosystems means digging up old grapevines and moving them down the road.
Nibbles: Seeds, Hazelnut double, Perry pears, Bananas in Puerto Rico
- Save food diversity, chef says.
- All well and good, but Nutella is driving hazelnut monoculture in Italy.
- Let them make wood vinegar!
- No doubt perry pears will be next for the monoculture treatment.
- Bananas are way ahead of pears, perry or otherwise.
Nibbles: Apple diversity, Quinoa diversity, Potato diversity, Indian coconut, Mead recipe
- The need to diversify apple breeding.
- Unlikely pean to the world quinoa core collection. I believe we may have blogged about it.
- And the Commonwealth Potato Collection rounds off today’s trifecta of cool genebanks.
- Kerala’s coconut problems only start with root wilt. Aren’t there coconut collections that could be used to solve them? Well of course there are.
- Recreating bochet, a medieval mead, sounds really hard, but worth it. Someone want to start a mead collection?