Nibbles: Honeybees, Jeremy on farro, PNG ag origins, Filipino rice, Overproduction
The myth of honeybee extinction in the wild. Myths about farro. The myth of agricultural determinism. The myth of landrace uselessness. The greatest myth of all?
Nibbles: Wild bees, Korean rice, Peanut coffee, Ag research, Sugarcane, Eat This Newsletter
Wild bees important even if there are plenty of honeybees. The rice war hots up between Korea and Japan. Peanut coffee. Peak 2020. Hopefully. Op-ed on international agricultural research and indigenous knowledge systems takes us 25 years back in time to a simpler world. New varieties are behind sugarcane expansion in the US. You want …
Brainfood: Food groups, Bumblebees, Wild lettuce, Bambara, Miscanthus, Wild macadamia, Sperm cryo, Fungi, Feed adoption, Bere evaluation, Lactose persistence
Culinary Cultural Conservation and Cultural Keystone Food Groups: Concepts in Ethnobotany. Immigrants stick with viandas. Safeguarding the genetic integrity of native pollinators requires stronger regulations on commercial lines. About half of bumblebee specimens in SW Spain were F1 hybrids or BC1. Lactuca dregeana DC. (Asteraceae: Chicorieae) – A South African crop relative under threat from …
Nibbles: Purple, Emirati bees, MJ Bale, Solanum jamesii, Olive genebank, Victoria genebank, Kampot pepper
Murex from Meninx. Breeding a better bee. Menswear retailer to dabble in sustainable livestock. There was a fourth sister. A world olive collection in Spain. “If we can assume the fire pattern is as bad as the stuff we see on TV, I reckon at this very moment there is a goodly sized handful of …
Nibbles: Farm subsidies, Pressing and naming plants, Cowpea primer, California crop maps, Caribbean mangoes, ABS meeting, Banana mapping, Sarada Krishnan, Indian millets, Apple varieties, Early modern bees
Fun Twitter thread on zombie tropes about farm subsidies in the US. Should have been a blog post, though. Kew boffins on how to make an herbarium specimen. More complicated than you might think. And why it’s important. While I’m at it, this is how you use herbarium specimens etc. to name plants. IITA genebank …