- Malawian farmers select their own sorghum.
- “Diverse landscapes are better: Policymakers urged to think broadly about biofuel crops.”
- “Reclaiming Land and Farmers for Rice Cultivation“.
- Local foods nourish local businesses.
- “Domestic animals here eat almost anything“.
Nibbles: Cheese, Seeds, Elephants
- Never mind big-auto, bail-out for big cheese.
- Millennium Seed Bank (still) pleading poverty.
- Kimani avoids crops, one day at a time.
Nibbles: Coffee
- Get your eco-coffee here. Where? Dominican Republic!
Nibbles: Frogs, Noni, Cassava etc, Commons, Starch, Aurochs, Oats
- Frog porridge.
- Noni in excruciating depth.
- Caribbean seeks food security, turns to “cassava, sweet potato, bananas, yams and many others”.
- Uncommonly interesting article on commons.
- Nice summary of the amylase-gene-copy-number-and-starch-in-the-diet story.
- Dutch aurochs survived longer than thought.
- Yes, we have no oats.
Nibbles: Health, Fungi, Health, Pollan, Organic
- Nobellist praises biodiversity, ignores food.
- TED video on world-saving mushrooms.
- God: “Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yieleling seed; to you, it shall be for meat.“
- Pollan: “Vote with your fork, for a different kind of food. Go to the farmer’s market. Get out of the supermarket… Plant a garden… Declare your independence from the culture of fast food.”
- Rodale Institute: “Yield data just by itself makes the case for a focused and persistent move to organic farming systems.”