- Plea from taxonomist to nutritionists and food people: use scientific names and get them right.
- Cooking writer doesn’t get the hint.
- New Scientist rounds up bunch of recent animal domestication studies.
- DIY bio-char; Muck & Mystery has some ideas.
- Diverseeds has videos of diverse seeds.
- “For one week, 2500 people from Noirmoutier use all their might to harvest this precious La Bonnotte potato by hand.”
- Barcoding bananas: useful for field genebanks?
Nibbles: Asparagus, Eels, ICT, Dingoes, Phoenix dactylifera, Apples, Bear-pit
- Liguria’s asparago violetto gets Slow Food treatment.
- “The bottom line is we just don’t know why they are struggling so badly.”
- Using mobile phones to treat plant pests and diseases in Uganda.
- Dingoes have positive effect on biodiversity.
- Date palm genome mapped.
- Boffins see the light, explain negative effect of fertilizers on biodiversity.
- Brogdale situation “better,” but for how long?
- Wait, Bern has a bear-pit?
Nibbles: Evolution, Beer, Bar codes, Food security
- Crop diversity and evolution, a view from Australia.
- Craft beer sales are up in the US (with video goodness).
- Bar codes for genebank management: potato center’s experience.
- Kuwait aims to buy Cambodia. Well, almost. Via .
Nibbles: Peppers, Medicinals, NYC gardening, Science writing, Urban ag, Pouteria
- Hot chili peppers on a blistering night, dust on my face and my cape…
- “North America’s only medicinal herbs germplasm collection.” New one on me.
- “Brooklyn was a breadbasket for the city only until the middle of the nineteenth century.” New one on me.
- Different journalistic takes on cow genome.
- Edmonton learns from Havana.
- Lucuma no longer novel, can enter Europe.
Nibbles: Farmer suicides, Mexican drink
- Vandana Shiva on Indian farmer suicides.
- Make mine a tejate.