- Not seen my copy yet, but the Land Institute is moving into perennial rice.
- More mutations, for faster breeding, now.
Nibbles: Marijuana, Yellow River, Chicha, Drips
- More (than you might possibly ever want) on that ancient weed.
- Yellow River unfit “even for agriculture”. Via.
- Danny does chicha. We await a full report.
- Drip irrigation uses more water! Say it isn’t so. Via.
Nibbles: Carbon, Oaks, SALT, Gardens, Wild horses, Rural depopulation, Finnish cows, Dabai
- You can monitor carbon dioxide from fossil fuels by analyzing wine (and maize leaves for that matter).
- Yes, we have no acorns.
- “Salt is sort of a diversified farming system.”
- “There’s a lot to learn from the past and how Native cultures have gardened“
- The end of the mustang?
- Urbanization and biodiversity conservation.
- Convicts conserve cows.
- Freezing technique opens door to commercialization of Canarium odontophyllum in Sarawak.
- Zero Mile Diet Seed Kit.
Nibbles: Sustainable agriculture, Zizania
- Llamas protect livestock from predators. And so much more about making agriculture wilder.
- Distant wild relative of rice runs amok in New Zealand.
Nibbles: Info-fest, Medicinals, Wiliwili, Fish, Salinity
- 10,000,000 pages of biodiversity: among them 84 articles on agriculture.
- The road to scientific expertise for Maryam Imbumi began with a stomach ache.
- It’s wasp versus wasp to save native wiliwili.
- Domesticating big fish in the Amazon. Really big.
- Indian institute churning out salt-tolerant varieties.