Nibbles: Feed lots, Tom Wagner, Ag Game, Cereal maps, Climate change, All change, Bananas extinct?, Permaculture course, Criminal urban ag, IPRs and GMOs

Feed lots, from the ever-wonderful Nicola Twilley – is the first of our eye-openers. Bifurcated carrots is hosting a PDF profile of Tom Wagner, prolific breeder of tomatoes and potatoes. Katherine McDonald is keen on a farming simulator game. Games? Who has time? Maybe this weekend. 1969 maps of cereals in India. I’d love to …

Nibbles: Roman gardens, Gwich’in video, Medicinals, Crowdsourcing, Genomics in general, Genomics in particular, ICARDA strategy, Growing plantains, Fonio, Fancy chocolate

All nice and rested, we are resolutely back. With the peaceful gardens of Pompeii and Herculaneum. With the very different lifeways of the Gwich’in. With Cassandra Quave and her quest for medicinal plants. Not among the Gwich’in, alas. With Jacob van Etten and his quest for crowdsourcing. Also not among the Gwich’in, who can’t buy …