The Culinary Breeding Network Breeding vegetables for flavour; now there’s a thought
If you going to breed vegetables for flavour — perish the thought — you need someone to help you decide what’s good. Enter the Culinary Breeding Network.
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When is a zucchini not a zucchini? A guide to the history of the world's most popular summer squash
A story of exploration, aristocracy and promiscuity, all in the service of better food. What more could you want?
The True Father of the First Green Revolution Nazareno Strampelli, born 150 years ago this week
Today’s show is something of a departure; I’m talking about someone who is crucial to global food security and yet who is almost unknown. It’s true, as Jean-Henri Fabre, the French naturalist wrote, that “History … knows the names of the king’s bastards but cannot tell us the origin of …
Why save seeds?
What, really, is the point of conserving agricultural biodiversity? The formal sector, genebanks and the like, will say it is about genetic resources and having on hand the traits to breed varieties that will solve the challenges tomorrow might throw up. Thousands of seed savers around the world might well …
Backyard vegetable breeding It isn't that difficult.
Carol Deppe was a guest here a few months ago, talking about how most people misunderstand the potato, which is about as nutritious a vegetable as you could hope for. I found out about that because I was checking out her new book, The Resilient Gardener, which offers all kinds …