- Vesicular arbuscular mychorriza help improve fallows.
- Google.org has a Predict and Prevent Initiative to catch outbreaks of human diseases before they happen. Would be nice to have something similar for threats of erosion of agrobiodiversity.
- Niger’s soudure food banks: could they act as village-level genebanks?
- You might call it meta-farming—the quasi-philosophical approach to raising crops and livestock that proceeds not from necessity or commercial aims but a concept.
- Farming in Russia: a slide show with narration.
- Army worm wine. WTF? Via. (They’re caterpillars.)
- A Kazak apple a day keeps the blue mold away.
- Neolithic China: not just rice.
- The oldest continuous cotton experiment in the world.
Nibbles: Tamarind, Fire, Aquaculture
- A single tree that is also a genebank? Holy tamarind.
- Looking to kangaroo bones for evidence of Aboriginal terraforming.
- African fish farming links. Via.
Nibbles: Markets, Edible schoolyard
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?
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.