links: sane food, ancient seed, a tiny chameleon

WE DO THIS ON FACEBOOK DAILY: I read something that grabs my attention, and pass it on. Easy: I just insert a link and a comment, click, go. But I realize only about 8,000 so far of you “like” the A Way to Garden Facebook page (care to join us there?), and that I must make an effort to share my random “bookmarks” more regularly with the wider group. And so…

They could be things like yesterday’s “New York Times” story by Anne Raver on Eliot Coleman and Barbara Damrosch at Four Season Farm in Maine, for instance. Or the animated video (above) produced to illustrate the tenets of sustainability from a Michael Pollan lecture that I spied on a favorite site, Maria Popova’s Brain Pickings [dot] org. Or:

Talk about reincarnation. How about a 32,000-year-old flower seed that germinates anyhow—and in the Arctic, no less. And we worry about how and where to store our leftover packets for a year or two.

On the subject of antiquity: Jump back nearly another 300 million years to a fossilized forest just reported on by Russian scientists in China, covered (Pompeii-like) in a thick layer of volcanic ash.

I find it very ironic that the word “goodwill” could be applied to Monsanto, in any context, but when it comes to accounting methods, apparently it has a lot of goodwill (on its books).  Related: The LA Times just recapped the suit filed last month in NYC Federal Court against Monsanto by a group of farmers and seed companies. The judge’s decision on whether the case has the merits to continue (or be dismissed, as Monsanto requested) is due by the end of March.

Speaking of biotech: This video from a Canadian environmental group may be a cartoon, but perhaps that underscores that even a CHILD should be able to