Nibbles – Page 435 – Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog

November 22, 2007

Pioneer agriculture

Photos of Frontier Culture Museum, including agrobiodiversity.

November 21, 2007

Corn husking contest

Keeping agricultural skills aliveÂ can be fun.

November 21, 2007November 21, 2007

Tasting apple diversity

Apples! Hundreds of ’em! Yum.

November 21, 2007

Jive turkey

Stop press: wild relative not in trouble.

November 20, 2007November 19, 2007

EU tells Romania to be nicer to pigs

Peasant Europe: one third ofÂ EU farm holdings are in Romania.

1. The COUSIN project aims to conserve (trans situ, no less) and use crop wild relatives in Europe.
2. That “use” part can be tough.
3. But that doesn’t stop the fine people at Aardaia. At least where aardaker (Lathyrus tuberosus) is concerned.
4. From alternative potatoes in the Netherlands to alternative beans in Indonesia. All in the cause of diversification.
5. No need to find an alternative to amaranth in the American SW. Not with devoted chefs on the job.
6. The Iraqi Seed Collective is taking seeds from American genebanks to that country’s diaspora in the US, and eventually back to Iraq itself. Maybe chefs will help.
7. Good thing there are genebank backups, eh?
Published on July 9, 2025