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Category: Nibbles

Little bits of link goodness not worth a whole post

Posted on October 28, 2008October 28, 2008

Nibbles: Nibbles, Nibbles, Nibbles

  1. Terra Madre day 4: Fast Nibbles.
  2. Biggest Chinese nibble in the world.
  3. Martin Luther’s nibbles.
Posted on October 27, 2008October 27, 2008

Nibbles: Creole cooking, Cattle, Greenhouses, Cartograms

  • Seychelles’ “living botanical herbarium of Creole Culture.”
  • Kerala tries to save Vechur cattle.
  • Terra Madre day 3: Tom ♥ Vandana.
  • Pix of how intelligent greenhouses can be used to grow huge vegetables. I wonder if these technique can be applied to regenerating accessions in genebanks
  • Don’t you just love cartograms?
Posted on October 26, 2008October 26, 2008

Nibbles: Vege-juice, Urban livestock, Seeds, Slow Food

  • Drink vegetable diversity for better nutrition. Jeremy sez: “Too salty”. And asks: “Who paid?”
  • “So why isn’t everyone living this locavore dream of having organic, free-range eggs for nearly nothing, right from their own backyard? Well, for one thing, it’s illegal.”
  • Blogger Seed Network. Explained. Make it grow.
  • Terra Madre, more notes from the Gristmill.
Posted on October 25, 2008October 25, 2008

Nibbles: Cereal, Bushmeat, Aquaculture, Olive oil

  • Neolithic parboiled bulgur wheat.
  • Applying “catch shares” to bushmeat.
  • The pros and cons of fish farming in Latin America.
  • “It’s a masochistic business. Masochistic.”
Posted on October 24, 2008October 24, 2008

Nibbles: Bananas, Avocadoes, Slow Food, Chilli, Sweet potatoes

  • Red bananas: one man’s story.
  • Avocado mayonnaise: one woman’s story.
  • Terra Madre, Day 1: one man’s story. Almost like being there.
  • Indoor hot pepper: someone’s grandad’s story.
  • Sweet potatoes: several people’s stories.

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Fresh Nibbles

    1. Africa needs good forest seeds.
    2. And genetic monitoring of the resulting plantings, probably.
    3. The Caribbean also wants quality seed, and thinks a mobile seed bank is the way to get it.
    4. The only mobile things about New Zealand’s genebank are its collectors.
    5. A very mobile donation to the UK’s vegetable genebank.
    6. Nothing very mobile about Slow Beans 2025, but that’s the point.
    7. The long journey of honeysuckle.

    Published on January 20, 2026

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