Nibbles

Nibbles: Illicit ag, Illicit stats, Irish folk meds, Medieval farming, Zoo methods, Date collection, Apple breeding, Ancient cannabis, Old yeast

Sorry about slow blogging lately. Life caught up with us. Slowly getting back in the saddle…
ISIS benefitting from agricultural production as much as oil.
Why we should drop “statistically significant.”
Irish folk medicine being used. Again. Or still.
Back to the future of farms, medieval edition: it’s the faldage, stupid.
Botanical art in history.
Applying zoo methods to plant conservation. Maybe should be the other way too?
The future of dates is in the US?
History of the Honeycrisp apple, for all you Red Delicious haters out there.
Ancient stash found. Down to seeds and stems.
Keep warm with some nice Latin American drinks.
Or beer made from old yeast from a shipwreck.

We missed the Culinary Breeding Network’s Variety Showcase, so we’d welcome a report.
Pete Brown’s new book The Apple Orchard looks worthwhile.
“The Mennonites do not like to be photographed, but they gave me permission to photograph their vegetables.” Take a look.

What sort of sick bastard decapitates European bison re-introduced to the wild?
Might have to introduce eucalypts to different places soon. No doubt that will also end in tears.
Diversity helps with flooding. But it’s probably too late.
USDA buys some insurance. Because life.
Animal portraits are guaranteed to make your day better. Even this day.