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Category: Nibbles

Little bits of link goodness not worth a whole post

Posted on September 25, 2008September 25, 2008

Nibbles: Hops, Green Revolution, Leeks, Hemp, Ethical eating, Cuba, Farmers’ markets

  • Brewers vertically integrate themselves. Like Snoopy Miller.
  • They met, we ate.
  • Roman garden recreated in Wales, complete with leeks.
  • “There are around 45,000 different uses for hemp.”
  • Drawing the ecotarian line.
  • Cuban urban agriculture sprouts anew after Ike.
  • List of farmers markets in the US. Luigi asks: where’s the GoogleMaps mashup?
Posted on September 23, 2008September 23, 2008

Nibbles: New Agriculturist, Sheep, Jatropha, Carrots

  • All about potatoes.
  • Mutant sheep to attack Australia.
  • An Indian Jatropha genebank in the news. And a study to tell us where to collect more using some really cool software.
  • The ‘Purple Dragon’ carrots are coming up in a variety of colours but mostly not purple.
Posted on September 22, 2008September 23, 2008

Nibbles: Goats, Fowl, Goats & fowl, Bees

  • Kenyans turn to dairy goats.
  • Ugandans advised to turn to local chickens.
  • Kenyans told: “Change your old farming methods or face starvation.” Jeremy says: “I’m confused.”
  • Irish bees — rescue plan. Thanks Danny.
Posted on September 20, 2008

Nibbles: Moringa, Gardening

  • “Seeing moringa described as the most nutritious of all tropical vegetables, I wondered why there was so much malnutrition in regions where the tree is easily grown and used.”
  • “It’s an historic garden and we’ve kept working it the way it was.”
Posted on September 19, 2008September 19, 2008

Nibbles: Potato genome, Horse genetics

  • Sequencing the potato genome “to meet the world’s food needs in the future”. Via.
  • Genetics of horse colour.

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Fresh Nibbles

    1. King Charles III talks about seeds with Dr Elinor Breman of Kew’s Millennium Seed Bank and…
    2. …Cate Blanchett.
    3. Or read about it in The Economist.
    4. Or watch a nice video.
    5. The seed banks of the National Plant Germplasm System in the USA are for farmers, not just researchers.
    6. How to get stuff out of the NPGS.
    7. Laurajean Lewis: from an NPGS genebank to CIMMYT’s.
    8. I’m sure she and Chris Mujjabi will get to know each other soon.
    9. Diane Ragone: Not all genebanks are seed banks.
    10. Not a lot of breadfruits in Belgium but, surprisingly, lots of bananas.

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