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Category: Nibbles

Little bits of link goodness not worth a whole post

Posted on November 29, 2007

Is it aronia or sarcasm?

Aronia berries set to take off. In Iowa. Maybe.

Posted on November 29, 2007

Unconventional wine-making

Grapes? We don’t need no stinkin’ grapes. To make wine, that is.

Posted on November 28, 2007

Bringing back a wild relative

Aurochsen. Tarpans. Nazis. Wait, Nazis?

Posted on November 28, 2007

Hittite plague explained

Hittites “used infected sheep as biological weapon.”

Posted on November 28, 2007

Record-breaking white truffle

A 1.5 kg white truffle has been unearthed  near San Miniato. It is a contender for world’s largest truffle ever.

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Fresh Nibbles

    1. Agrobiodiversity inspires tourism in the Andes of Peru.
    2. South African fruit exporters does its (small) bit for heirloom apple conservation.
    3. Wild tea doing just fine in the Shunhuangshan National Nature Reserve in Hunan Province, China. Even when harvested by local communities. Looks great for tourism too.
    4. Native communities in Nebraska getting some support for saving and exchanging seeds.
    5. Women are in charge of chiles in Tamil Nadu.
    6. Popular Science does genebanks. At least one genebank has tourism potential, I’d say.
    7. Want to support forest landscape restoration through native tree planting in Kenya? Go to MyFarmTrees, and help keep Kenya a tourism hotspot.

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