Nibbles

Nibbles: Lost apple, Ducks, Chilli breeding, Heritage breeds, Population and Quantitative Genetics, Madeira

Finding the Colorado Orange apple.
British duck breed goes wild in Thailand.
Might consumers care about genetics?
Well they do, right? At least if they’re into heirloom varieties and heritage breeds.
If they do care, they should read this book.
Is madeira your desert island wine?

The colonial history of the jackfruit in Sri Lanka.
“…some of the best cider you can drink is as funky and wild as a 1970s Berlin bathhouse.” Ok, you twisted my arm.
The world in a Philadelphia watermelon stand.
Bee Wilson’s review of wheat book Amber Waves by Catherine Zabinski.
The Canadian genebank at 50.
Oh shoot I missed National Pawpaw Day.
Podcast on carrot breeding using crop wild relatives.

Prof. Gayle J. Fritz gets 2020 Mary W. Klinger Book Award for “Feeding Cahokia.” Beyond maize and priests.
The ups and downs of grape varieties. Airén relinquishes the top spot! So much data: who will calculate diversity stats?
Nice, long podcast on the beginning of farming in the Fertile Crescent. More coming up.
“Treasure Trove of Benefits and Variety at the Table” is the sort of cookbook we all need.
What is it about floating gardens? Quite a lot, really. But they are not easily transplanted, as it were.

Seeds going home, thanks to the Indigenous Seed Keepers Network and others.
Matooke gets its first hybrids.
Avocado gets its first solid cryo protocol.
The agricultural challenges and opportunities of African urbanization. No word on the fact that more and more ag will be urban ag. Or on what it will all mean for crop diversity.