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Category: Nibbles

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Posted on February 20, 2008February 24, 2008

Nibbles: Honey, seeds, bioprospecting, chocolate

  • Haagen Dazs understands. No bees = no honey and no fruit.
  • Over-excited about seeds. Jeremy comments, “It’s that time of the year”.
  • South Korea bioprospecting in Costa Rica.
  • A round-up of recent (bad) news on the chocolate front.
  • Namibia: no country for vegetarians.
Posted on February 18, 2008February 19, 2008

Nibbles: Japan, BBC TV, sauce, basmati, banana

  • Indoor farms in Tokyo, growing a diversity of non-pot crops, to train yoof. Via.
  • BBC News web site picks up on BBC World TV documentary on neglected species.
  • The geography of sauce in South Carolina.
  • India and Pakistan find something to agree on: basmati rice.
  • Have we already mentioned this new book on bananas?
Posted on February 17, 2008

Reflections on dog breeding

Nice pictures of livestock guardian dog breeds. And a plea for lumping.

Posted on February 17, 2008February 18, 2008

Calling a spade a spade

An – ahem – unusual view of the Green Revolution. Via 2blowhards.

Posted on February 15, 2008

History of lettuce

Romaine, the oldest lettuce…

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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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