Podcasts

Nibbles: Seeds podcast, Arctic melons, Microbiome, Apple breeding, Whiteness

Podcast on Vavilov’s genebank.
What Vavilov’s genebank is up to at the moment with its melons.
Meanwhile, UK sets up a Crop Microbiome Cryobank.
How to breed apples.
Here’s how you can check if all of the above are free of the taint of white supremacy.

Crop-Climate Suitability Mapping. Yes, another one. I feel a proper post coming on.
Tweet from Sean Hoban on ex situ sampling strategies. I feel a proper post coming on.
Proper blog post explains a really complicated rice domestication paper in about a page.
Proper podcast from Jeremy on, among other things, why coffee leaf rust is not why the Brits drink tea.
Not sure if this is blog post, but it’s a really good example of weaving together (see what I did there?) different pieces of work on the wool dogs (sic) of the Pacific NW.

BBC Food Programme on wheat, with the authors of Amber Waves and The Man Who Tried to Feed the World.
Tides of History podcast on livestock domestication with Prof. Greger Larson. He thinks “domestication” should be used as a descriptor of a state rather than a label for a process. He also thinks that animals became “domesticated” basically only once (except for pigs).
A citrus fruit you never heard of is crucial to Japanese cuisine.
Bringing back heirloom rice and other traditional crops in the Sea Islands. And more.
Building back better: from 200 food systems recommendation to 41 no regrets actions. And why we need them NOW!
A Peruvian peasant organization goes digital.
Huge book on strengthening seed systems in South Asia.
Nice CGN video on seed processing in genebanks.
How can businesses value biodiversity? Here come the guidelines.

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.