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Send In the “GIs”: The U.S. Defends its Vinous Territory

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What goes around, comes around. Wine tasting is one metaphor; you draw the first sip up one side of your tongue, aerating it noisily in a way that would have gotten you banished from your childhood dinner table, and let it slide down the other, savoring all its flavors and, if you’re […]

Landraces: On the “verge” of becoming crops

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Road verges. Windbreaks. The vicinities of abandoned fields, market grounds, and storage sheds. When most people think of biodiversity conservation, these are not the places that come to mind. Much more familiar are wild-land conservation areas - rainforests, wetlands, tundra, even tidepools and undersea canyons - places virtually untouched by human […]

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