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Edible Geography
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Edible Geography is a personal blog at ediblegeography.com about culture and science. Since 2009, 26 different Hacker News readers have linked it 27 times, most often “Strange and Beautiful Seeds From the Atom (2011)”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-11-01, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (6) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Edible Geography for stories about food, farming and plants, such as atomic gardening crops, British apple rootstock research, and strategic maple syrup stockpiles.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 6 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Strange and Beautiful Seeds From the Atom (2011)4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2015-06-12
- Central de Abasto – World's Largest Food Market (2010)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2010-07-05
- Spaces of Banana Control (2011)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-01-17
What Hacker News says?
https://www.ediblegeography.com/rootstock-archaeology/ There's some detail here about how British researchers developed apple tree rootstocks, including photos of whole trees that have been excavated and reassembled. Couple it with this documentary: https://docuwiki.net/index.php?title=Apples:_British_to_the_...
Comment linking /rootstock-archaeology/
on “1.18k drawings of plant root systems”Submitted The Importance of Acoustics in Food Storage as a story · 105 points
HN discussionhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_gardening EDIT: you may be thinking of this article specifically http://www.ediblegeography.com/strange-and-beautiful-seeds-f... > For example, a mutagenic Ruby Red grapefruit grown without the use of pesticides can be labeled as organic and thus be sold for a premium, despite the fact that organic foods by definition cannot be genetically modified.
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on “Siberia: 18,000-year-old frozen 'dog' stumps scientists”Submitted How to Clone Mineral Water (2012) as a story · 82 points
HN discussionhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_gardening and http://www.ediblegeography.com/strange-and-beautiful-seeds-f...
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on “Yes, organic farming will kill us all”Submitted Honey Fences as a story · 71 points
HN discussionAccording to this article,[1] cultivars produced with this method include Calrose 76 rice and Todd's Mitcham peppermint, which respecively account for roughly half of California's rice crop and a majority of the world's peppermint [1] http://www.ediblegeography.com/strange-and-beautiful-seeds-f...
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on “Atomic Gardening”Submitted The Nutritional Impossibility of Australia as a story · 40 points
HN discussionCigarette butts seem to be the most common by count , but what about weight and volume? On the streets of NYC, I don't really notice the cigarettes, but I do notice the enormous amount of plastic bags (much of it stuck in trees), plastic or paper cups, straws, takeout containers. And gum. If you ever look at a sidewalk and see dark splotches [1], that's discarded chewing gum. It's absolutely everywhere. Not as invas…
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on “We picked up, tracked, and analyzed 130k pieces of litter in SF”Submitted Smog Meringues as a story · 39 points
HN discussionCheck out the global strategic maple syrup reserve ( https://www.ediblegeography.com/syrup-stockpiles-wine-lakes-... )
Comment linking /syrup-stockpiles-wine-lakes-butter-mountains-and-other-strategic-food-reserves/
on “Washington Pizza Index (1998)”Submitted Central de Abasto – World's Largest Food Market (2010) as a story · 13 points
HN discussionSubmitted A Cocktail Party in the Street: An Interview with Alan Stillman (2010) as a story · 12 points
HN discussionSubmitted Strange and Beautiful Seeds From the Atom (2011) as a story · 9 points
HN discussionSubmitted Spaces of Banana Control (2011) as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted From Paris, With Smell (Communicating Smell) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Impossibility of Historical Flavour as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Lunch: An Urban Invention as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The evolution of coffee cup lids as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Science of Banana Ripening as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Comets, Not Moons as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Edible Apple Tattoo as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Tweeting Breakfast as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Mapping Gangs and Cupcakes as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Glacial Terroir as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Axis of Food (the Central de Abasto in México DF) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Julio the Sewer Diver as a story · 1 points
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