- Seed Savers Network 20th annual meeting on 28 March near Mudgee, NSW, Australia.
- UG99 wheat rust reaches Iran.
- Tangled Bank 100 1 is up. Are all those spelling mistakes ironic?
- Czech red cow in bad shape, no bull.
- USDA tries in different ways to raise the nutrient content of crops. Jeremy unavailable for comment.
- Guess where the world centre of blackberry breeding is. Did you say Arkansas? Didn’t think so.
- Thai garlic is best, say Thais.
Nibbles: Potatoes, livestock, artemesia
- File under “never too late”: Ireland diversifies its potatoes.
- UK establishes livestock breeds committee. Not concerned about species?
- “All I think of is more and more artemesia,” says shilling millionaire Ugandan farmer.
Nibbles: IPRs, chicory, pigs
- Tewolde Berhan Gebre Egziabher optimistic that farmers can avoid becoming “serfs of a different kind”.
- Three chicory museums? Who knew? Want to know more about chicory?
- Just when you thought it was safe, Return of the Pocket Pigs (with added photographic goodness).
Nibbles: Anti-diversification, chickens, bananas, registers, tropical fruits
- US subsidy system prevents diversification. Via.
- Chicken domestication; possibly more than you could ever want to know.
- Red bananas; Raul unavailable for comment.
- Filipino community registers agrobiodiversity.
- Tropical fruit diversity conserved, studied and consumed in the US. That includes the citron. 2
Nibbles: Branding, dogs
- Commodity branding is older than you think. Via.
- Ancient Scandinavian dogs not like modern Scandinavian dogs.