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Category: Nibbles

Little bits of link goodness not worth a whole post

Posted on April 2, 2009

Nibbles: Mopane, Evolution, Cacao

  • Food shopping in Harare includes dried caterpillars by the sackful. Luigi says: “Yum”.
  • Carnival of Evolution #10 at The Oyster’s Garter. Jeremy says: “Yum”.
  • Ecological cacao. We all say: “Yum”.
Posted on April 2, 2009

Nibbles: Mopane, Evolution, Cacao

  • Food shopping in Harare includes dried caterpillars by the sackful. Luigi says: “Yum”.
  • Carnival of Evolution #10 at The Oyster’s Garter. Jeremy says: “Yum”.
  • Ecological cacao. We all say: “Yum”.
Posted on April 1, 2009

Nibbles: Advice, Bees, Chops, Delights

  • Students offer organic advice.
  • First Beekeeper.
  • Mangalista pigs, from Hungarian obscurity to top tables.
  • The latest botany carnival Berry Go Round 15 is up.
Posted on March 31, 2009March 31, 2009

Nibbles: Infoflow, Apples, Urban agriculture, Veterinary medicine

  • The Tracing Paper launches a twitter round-up. UK based, and food system in general, not just agrobiodiversity, and very useful.
  • Old English apples in supermarkets … in three years time, DV. Via Tracing Paper (see above)
  • SPIN-Farming has a new presentation you can download to promote intensive, diverse farming.
  • South African wild plants as veterinary medicines.
Posted on March 30, 2009March 30, 2009

Nibbles: Soil diversity, Coffee, Ants, Haskap, Biochar

  • “Spreading antibiotics in the soil affects microbial ecosystems“. No shit.
  • Drink more (Rwandan) coffee. What about the other coffee countries?
  • Cane toad nemesis: meat ants. Eeyew.
  • 1st Virtual International Scientific Conference On Lonicera caerulea L. Via .
  • The biochar backlash. Oliver snips and links.

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Fresh Nibbles

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    3. A little more safety for Andean agriculture, thanks to Ecuadorian Indigenous women and Inside Mater in Peru.
    4. A little more safety for Ischia’s zampognaro bean and Amalfi’s lemons, thanks to local people (and GIAHS).
    5. A little more safety for Pacific crops, thanks to cryopreservation. Breadfruit next?
    6. A little more safety for moringa? At least in Africa with all its “opportunity crops”?

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