Urban agriculture

Nibbles: Gardens, Heirloom tomatoes, Maple beetles, Nepali citrus, Guyana adaptation, Indian policy, GMOS, Apple festivals

Nourishing the Planet featured in Madison paper. Fame at last.
Tomato Party!
What, no more maple syrup? Something Must Be Done!
Nepal gets a citrus genebank.
Guyanese women farmers switch to coconuts (and other things) to cope with flooding.
Indian farmers demand another Green Revolution.
Uh-oh. “GMO corn falls prey to bugs it was supposed to thwart“.
First news of apple festivals, in Vancouver, CA.

NASA says there has not been a drought-driven decline in plant productivity after all. Yeah but where’s my jet-pack, guys?
Hanging Gardens of Babylon had date palms and tamarisk. At least.
Edible wild Armenian plants.
AVRDC on how to grow vegetables in all sorts of different containers.

Genetic diversity in European men and one of the organisms they exploit. And another.
CIAT cassava entomologist rings warning bell.
ILRI boffins point out why they don’t have enough money. Yeah, but what’s to be done about it?
Malnutrition in Kenya and Guatemala. Are school gardens an/the answer? FAO thinks so.

Planting roadsides with natives, including crop wild relatives. And here comes the database.
Orange Maize: The Movies.
VirtualKenya really here. Mother-in-law beside herself.
Plant Cuttings is out. And all of a sudden I’m in a much better place.
Small is beautiful, farm edition. And as chance would have it, coffee farm edition. And urban edition.
Dispute at iconic coconut plantation resolved. Apparently there are some really unique varieties there.
I say boniato. For the first and last time.
Acacia on the brink. Easy, tiger. The name, not the genus.
We’re going to need a better model.
Pulque comes back. Never knew it had gone away.
Domesticating fruit trees in Kenya. Something for VirtualKenya?

See what WWF thinks will make agriculture sustainable.
Americans are dying younger. Obesity partly to blame.
Study shows how scientists can get farmers to innovate. And vice versa?
Iron-age beer in France. “Beer … might have resembled modern home brews.” Which might have created a nation of wine-drinkers.
Voice of America ♥ Nourishing the Planet. (African farmers also important.)
Bacteria in mosses on tree branches fertilize forest soils. How long before the whole thing is available in a packet?
Bioengineering the prairie. Together with, presumably, its crop wild relatives.