- Seed Hunter “undaunted.” So that’s all right then.
- Smithsonian puts old seed catalogs online. Very cool.
- By all means plant trees, especially on farms, but a plantation is not a rainforest.
Nibbles: Carotenoids, Banana diseases, Pigeons, Fisheries, Animal welfare, Camels in the Netherlands
- Evaluating tomatoes for carotenoids.
- Yet more on those banana diseases in Africa, this time from VOA.
- Stop maligning pigeons already.
- Six boffins on the fisheries crisis.
- The difference between dogs and pigs.
- Dutch find camels difficult. Camels no doubt return the favour.
Nibbles: Tree planting, Farm photos, Dandelion rubber, Ash trees, Qatar garden, Cairo cull
- India tree planter tells BBC his story. But what species?
- Photoessay on Irish farm, begorrah!
- The next rubber boom?
- A “modern-day Johnny Appleseed for ash trees.”
- Qur’anic Botanical Garden established in Qatar.
- Egyptians regret pig cull.
Nibbles: Preservation, Markets, Cuy, Fallows in slash-and-burn, Rice
- Pickling everything. Japanese edition.
- Mapping farmers’ markets in the US. Idaho has zero demand for organic produce?
- Domesticating the guinea pig. Cute AND good to eat.
- Longer fallows mean more diverse soil microinvertebrates, better soils in French Guiana.
- Archaeological remains of rice from China.
Nibbles: IUCN book, Ancient DNA, Durian, Bees, Enola
- IUCN book Conservation for a New Era is out. Agriculture on page 160.
- Ancient DNA, from the general to the particular, courtesy of pigs.
- Durian and alcohol don’t mix. Damn.
- New Internationalist does a number on bees. Thanks, Lubin.
- The last word on the Enola bean case. At last.