This week’s Economist reports that Alethia Vázquez-Morillas of the Autonomous Metropolitan University in Mexico City and her colleagues have found that cultivating the right type of mushroom on soiled nappies…
Read moreJeremy Cherfas over at Agrobiodiversity mentioned that I thought there were traces of the agricultural techniques of Medieval Islam in Mexico (and presumably the rest of Latin America). I don’t…
Read moreNow here’s a terrific resource, a really reliable site dedicated to medieval Arabic manuals on farming produced all over the medieval Islamic world (see map above) . …
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