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Category: Nibbles

Little bits of link goodness not worth a whole post

Posted on September 23, 2007

Root crops vs grains

Do we need more vegeculture? Via Tucsonivores.

Posted on September 23, 2007September 23, 2007

Poisonous agrobiodiversity

UK’s only public garden of “poisonous” plants opens at Alnwick Castle.

Posted on September 22, 2007September 22, 2007

Biofuels bad

Rapeseed biofuel “produces more greenhouse gas than oil or petrol”.

Posted on September 22, 2007September 22, 2007

National fruit of Cambodia

Chicken egg banana. Not diversity, a variety name.

Posted on September 21, 2007September 21, 2007

How domestication happens

Blog commentary on a paper about serendipitous backyard domestication.

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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.

    Published on April 21, 2026

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