- 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”.
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.
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.
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.
Nibbles: Conference, Funding, Borlaug, Bananas, Indian genebanks, Cassava cooking, Bees, Beer
- FARA-led Conference on Agricultural Biodiversity in Africa, 2010
- Switzerland will not cut support to genebank in Africa.
- Yesterday’s birthday paean to Norman Borlaug,
- Man worries (inchoately) about banana extinction.
- “Over 20,000 indigenous varieties of Indian rice and other food grains have been conserved under Crop Germplasm Conservation at the gene banks.”
- IITA gets USAID support to come up with better cassava recipes. Luigi comments: “All the money in the world will not be enough.”
- Giving native bees a home.
- Bespoke organic beer in the UK. Sweet!