Nibbles – Page 487 – Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog

June 21, 2007June 21, 2007

What colour is your pollen?

What colour is your pollen? Mustard Plaster tells all.

June 19, 2007June 19, 2007

Chilean salmon farming

WWF recommends how salmon farming and beautiful Chilean lakes can co-exist.

June 18, 2007June 18, 2007

In praise of older fruit

Muck and Mystery would have us believe that glossy supermarket fruit is “poverty food”. And he’s right.

Croatian agricultural biodiversity

Conference on Croatian breeds and varieties, in Croatian though.

Kapok disjunction

Kapok (Ceiba) distribution explainedÂ by long distance dispersal?

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