Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog
Agrobiodiversity is crops, livestock, foodways, microbes, pollinators, wild relatives …
Not a complete reply, but helpful for anyone who wants to reduce the drudgery of food preparation, Diane Ragone recommends a source for processing machinery that can deal with soybeans, among other things. Compatible Technology International develops low tech grinders and other devices to process various nuts, grains, and other crops, including soybeans. Hope that …
It’s jujube season. Who knew? Anissa Helou, that’s who. Big video interview with Diane Ragone, breadfruit suprema. Today’s ho-hum genome sequence to promise improved agricultural crops: Brassica rapa. Genebank saves (and restores) a rare strawberry. I’m not registering here, but I read about it here. Cool approach. ICRISAT jumps on the small-seed-packets-are-beautiful bandwagon.
Frank Lohmann asked an intriguing question in a comment on a recent post about breadfruit: I have several breadfruit trees, which most likely go back to the trees captain Bligh brought to Jamaica, does anyone know which variety that is? The reason Frank gave for believing his plants to date back to Capt. Bligh is …
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Our friend Diane Ragone of the Breadfruit Institute has kindly reminded us that there’s been quite a lot published on her favourite fruit lately. Almost worth a Brainfood all on its own, in fact. Beyond the Bounty: Breadfruit (Artocarpus altilis) for food security and novel foods in the 21st Century. Great potential, but “a deeper …
Royal Horticultural Society asks Welsh gardeners to “bring out their dead” (TM Cherfas). Rubber photos. More on breadfruit from our friend Diane Ragone.