- Finger millet is the future in Zimbabwe.
- Conventional down has a problem. I do prefer unconventional down myself.
- They had National Bison Day and nobody told us.
- Epic’s Excellent Svalbard Adventure.
- Start planning for next year’s cucurbit conference.
- Soil salinity sucks.
- On the other hand, this nutrition conference is in only a couple of weeks. And there will be radio.
- Not that these Indonesian ladies will need that.
Dia de los Muertos at CIMMYT
Thanks to Dr Denise Costich, manager of the maize collection at CIMMYT, for this photo of the decorations currently gracing the lobby of the genebank building.
And let’s all “Like” the genebank’s new Facebook page, which features this and other nice photos!
Fibers on display in Boston
That’s from the “[s]plendid, viscerally engaging … groundbreaking exhibition” called Fiber: Sculpture 1960-Present, now on at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston. And it was pretty cool. But would it have killed them to include some pictures, or even live examples, of the plant (and animal) sources of the raw materials for objects such as this? 1
Well, maybe not the animal sources…
Remembering the Irish Potato Famine
Came across this monument in Boston last week. A stark reminder of what happens when crops are not diverse enough.
Nibbles: Grassland diversity, Home on the range, Delicate hump, Mexican medicinals, ‘Shrums, Salty potatoes, Salty pigs, Afforestation, Craft beer guy
- Diversity rules. In grasslands, settle down.
- You want bison with that grassland?
- Your hump, sir. Bison shbison.
- Federales crack down on medicinal plants.
- Including fungi?
- Salt-tolerant potatoes in the news, for the wrong reason.
- What is it about photos of pigs on a beach? You could grow the above potatoes on the beach and then the pigs could eat them. I’d pay money to see those pics.
- Japanese methods used to plant Indian urban forests. Tree planting has a special name?
- Peru deals with stunting.
- Hero.