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Category: Nibbles

Little bits of link goodness not worth a whole post

Posted on November 20, 2007

New, bigger ancho pepper

Size is important, at least in peppers.

Posted on November 19, 2007November 19, 2007

Many trees grow in Brooklyn

Crop wild relatives etc. in Prospect Park. Betty Smith unavailable for comment.

Posted on November 19, 2007

Elephants don’t like it hot

Paris Hilton, then hot peppers. Indian elephants can’t catch a break.

Posted on November 19, 2007November 19, 2007

Teaching conservation

School play: biotech for agrobiodiversity conservation. Brecht unavailable for comment.

Posted on November 19, 2007

Chimp food gathering behaviour studied

Chimps dig tubers. In both senses.

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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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