You’ll have to take my word for it, unless you read Chinese, or can make head or tail out of the Google translation of the announcement on the Environmental Information E-News website, but it looks like a number of accessions of Setaria millet from the USDA collection have been “repatriated” to some Taiwanese hilltribe communities who had lost them over the years. Me, I’d have asked for stuff from other places too while I was at it, what with climate change and all, but anyway. There will apparently be more on the project on the website of the Department of Agronomy, National Taiwan University, but again you’ll need some language skills to get the full benefit. Prof. Warren H.J. Kuo is the man in charge. The word is that Taiwan’s Public Television Service will upload something in English to youtube very soon. Looking forward to that.
Greening fish and chips
What’s happening to the Great British Fish and Chips Meal? On a recent trip to Whitby on the Yorkshire coast I found that not only is the fish sustainable now.
But the whole thing is also GMO-free.
It didn’t use to be this way. What next? Organic heirloom potatoes? Acid-free paper to eat them from? Hardly bears thinking about.
Frost on vegetables
It’s a hard winter for British homegardeners…
The Crown Jewels of USDA
Nice video on how USDA conserves plant and animal genetic resources at Ft Collins in Colorado. Great job by Dave Ellis and co.
Watch the full episode. See more America’s Heartland.
Christmas agrobiodiversity
Agricultural biodiversity on display for Christmas in a Parisian street market.