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“I find that no Plants were as yet collected for His Majestys Garden at Kew”

Smithsonian Magazine has a long, wonderful piece this month about the breadfruit — and Captain Bligh — in Jamaica. It’s by Caroline Alexander, who wrote a book on the famous mutiny, The Bounty. People forget that after the Bounty debacle in 1789, Bligh eventually, doggedly went back to the Pacific and completed his original mission …

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Nibbles: Cacao, Pamphlets, Breadfruit, Goats, Milk, Economic drivers, Truffles

Cacao comes in 10 “flavours”, not just 3. PDFs of pamphlets on different aspects of agricultural biodiversity from FAO. Diane Ragone interviewed on breadfruit. Something for the weekend, Mr Goat? Got yak milk? High livestock prices mean lots of livestock on the land means low biodiversity on farmland. Here comes the science. NatGeo video on the …

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Breadfruit catalogue online

From Diane Ragone, director of the Breadfruit Institute at the National Tropical Botanical Garden in Hawaii. A catalogue of the breadfruit germplasm collection at the National Tropical Botanical Garden is now online as a searchable database on the Breadfruit Institute webpages. Varieties come to life through stunning photographs (courtesy of Jim Wiseman, DigitalMedia Hawaii/Pacific) that …

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