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This NYT story may be a quirky diversion about a few people foraging for edible plants in parks…or a harbinger of what could become general as we head into an uncertain food future. It reminds me of the Tragedy of the Commons, the often-quoted essay by Garret Hardin about what happens when some people exploit the [...]  We’ve been experimenting with cider lately, but nothing on this scale: a photo essay from the Guardian on an apple’s journey from tree to pub in England. Some of it is wrong (the caption writer isn’t an apple grower) and some of it Monty Pythonesque (they harvest with a stick?) but it’s all interesting and [...] Fig Maestro Umberto Garbuio The largest fig tree in Canada is taking over a residential backyard in Burnaby, BC. Or it would be if it weren’t being expertly tended by its owner, Umberto Garbuio. Umberto gets hundreds of pounds of figs off his monster plant each year. He eats some, gives away some, makes jams and [...] |
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