Nibbles

Nibbles: Gardening, Maple syrup, Farming and conservation, Late blight, Urban guerrilla, Bizarre produce, Russian food, Aquaculture, Heirloom apples, Turkish medicinal plants, Bee-eating hornets

NY Botanical Garden launches summer Edible Garden celebration.
Thingy for getting more syrup out of maples invented.
Farmer floods his fields on purpose.
Insights into tomato late-blight resistance. Do try and keep up!
A very English guerrilla gardener.
Pictures of weird fruits and vegetables.
Russian starters. Uhm, I spot a trend.
The future of aquaculture: giant robotic roaming cages.
Saving California’s Sebastopol Gravenstein apple.
“Zeytinburnu Medicinal Plant Garden, opened in 2005, is Turkey’s first and only medicinal plant garden.”
Something else has it in for bees: Chinese hornets.

After a year’s travel in search of seeds, Adam Forbes turns in his report.
The genetics of orange-fleshed cucumbers elucidated.
Tea and hibiscus booze.
Video of honey harvesting.
Maps of sea level rise. All somewhat unsatisfying, somehow.
“Because we are poor, we shall suffer first but, ultimately, we shall all die together.”
SADC Plant Genetic Resources Centre (SPGRC) director Paul Munyenyembe does the public awareness thing.

Tofu, anyone?
Plumcot, anyone?
Guerrilla gardening, everyone!
Green Revolution breadbasket drying up. ICRISAT has the answer. Well, sort of.
BBC has a different answer. Trees can keep people alive in times of drought.
More semi-naked chicks, this time in South Africa.
Naked or otherwise, eat them to save them, with the American Livestock Breeds Conservancy.

The 2nd World Seed Conference is coming up soon.
Orange bananas make it big in the Solomon Islands. Thanks, Lois.
DIVA-GIS website gets a makeover. Watch out for the blog.
Global protected areas map mashed up.
Dorian Fuller blogs lentil and bean domestication.
Bookforum.com does food.
While people discuss the pros and cons of assisted migration, one group has actually gone out and done it.