American growers urged to try heirloom tomatoes.
More on school gardens
A brief summary of edible schoolyards in the US, with useful links. A couple more links that I snagged over at Desertification. A new book on Gardening with Children and an article about how teachers in San Francisco are using gardening, with a video. Desertification has also published a comment on the subject as a full post, which seems like a neat bit of recycling.
Tomato tastefest
I used to do this:
Sometimes there seems to be a disconnect between the luxury consumption of diversity and the fundamental use of biodiversity for food security; I’d love to help show people at farmers’ markets, for example, that their taste treat is someone else’s survival mechanism.
Archaeology of chili peppers
Remains of oldest Mexican takeaway found.
Eat your veggies
Second AJFAND volume dedicated to African leafy veggies is out.