Comments on: Where Our Food Comes From

By: Learning About Heirloom Tomatoes | Food & Think

Learning About Heirloom Tomatoes | Food & Think — Wed, 06 May 2009 16:23:17 +0000

[...] sells the seeds of thousands of heirloom garden plants that might have otherwise become extinct. (Gary Nabhan, a longtime advocate of seed conservation and crop diversity, is an advisor to the same [...]

By: A Brief History of the Potato, for St. Patrick's Day | Food & Think

A Brief History of the Potato, for St. Patrick's Day | Food & Think — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 13:58:18 +0000

[...] made it all the way through Reader’s book just yet. I did notice that the hero of the last book I read, the Russian botanist Nikolay Vavilov, makes an appearance, so I’m eager to read [...]

By: Jeremy Cherfas

Jeremy Cherfas — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 13:44:54 +0000

If you’re interested in Vavilov and Nabhan’s efforts to bring his work up to date, you might also be interested in the project to put vavilov on the web, at http://www.vaviblog.com

Thanks.

By: Robin

Robin — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 18:03:34 +0000

So interesting! I read about Valivov in an article somewhere about the seed bank, but I didn’t know all of this. I might have to check out the book.