- Broccoli’s goodies engineered into tobacco. Jeremy comments: “Let them eat broccoli”.
- Australians discover diversity: livestock graze grain (plants)!
- Unidentified blight strikes Malagasy vanilla: lack of diversity to blame.
Nibbles: Cheese, Seeds, Elephants
- Never mind big-auto, bail-out for big cheese.
- Millennium Seed Bank (still) pleading poverty.
- Kimani avoids crops, one day at a time.
Agriculture good for nature after all
Yes indeed, and let me count the ways:
- Betel nut plantations good for birds.
- “Satoyama” good for all kinds of wildlife.
- Traditional cow breed good for plant good for rare moth.
That’s just what’s been in the news in the past few days. I smell a trend…
Nibbles: String, Lake District, Apples, Biochar, Display, Firs, Sweet potato, Rice, Bison
- Lots of agrobiodiversity in one little piece of Neolithic string.
- Traditional cow breed saves plant saves rare moth. The elusive agrobiodiversity win-win-win?
- Centenarian arboreal agrobiodiversity artfully pruned.
- Burning agrobiodiversity. But in a good way. And for a good cause.
- Plant parts create Yuletide fantasy.
- Speaking of Yuletide, Christmas trees need diversity too. And Michigan State is there.
- Sure, it’s impressive, but is it a potato?
- Farming on the edge … of a large reservoir. Life has its ups and downs.
- Aristotle on bison faeces. Yes, that Aristotle.
Nibbles: Carbon, Oaks, SALT, Gardens, Wild horses, Rural depopulation, Finnish cows, Dabai
- You can monitor carbon dioxide from fossil fuels by analyzing wine (and maize leaves for that matter).
- Yes, we have no acorns.
- “Salt is sort of a diversified farming system.”
- “There’s a lot to learn from the past and how Native cultures have gardened“
- The end of the mustang?
- Urbanization and biodiversity conservation.
- Convicts conserve cows.
- Freezing technique opens door to commercialization of Canarium odontophyllum in Sarawak.
- Zero Mile Diet Seed Kit.