- The plantation roots of the food system need to be pulled out.
- And biodiversity collections decolonized.
- And protected areas too while we’re at it.
Nibbles: High edition
- South Africa looks to legalize weed.
- Quick gallop through the chemistry of food. Weed brownies not covered.
- Is your salad this diverse? Weed not included.
Nibbles: Carver, Banana phenotyping, Wild wheat project, Chinese chillies, Tea book
- George Washington Carver‘s legacy lives on.
- Finding drought-resistant bananas: the movie.
- Mining wild wheat. Again.
- The definitive book on hot peppers in China. And I’ll save you a few clicks, here’s the video alluded to in the review.
- The definitive book on tea. Not just China either.
Nibbles: Oz wine atlas, Microbiome vault, Guerrilla breeding, Seed relief bibliography, Food archaeology, Seed producers, Marmalade
- The future of Australian wine in maps.
- A Svalbard for the human microbiome?
- Plant breeders on the edge of the mainstream.
- From FAO, a bibliography on seed systems and seed relief.
- Book review: The Archaeology of Food: Identity, Politics, and Ideology in the Prehistoric and Historic Past.
- Training seed producer groups can help their non-member neighbours too.
- There will be marmalade for tea. But, spoiler alert, it might not be what you think.
Nibbles: NordGen, Wollemi backyards, Coral genebank, Food security, Cherokee chefs, Community seed bank
- Nordics upgrade genebank database.
- Crowdsourcing Wollemi pine conservation.
- Corals need a genebank too. And a database and crowdsourcing as well, no doubt.
- Though I’m not sure they’ll be able to make the food security argument.
- Or bring chefs on board.
- What would a community genebank look like for coral, I wonder. And are they hiring?