
ALT Arriving from Shanghai in time to celebrate his 95th birthday. Straight from the airport, he prepared me breakfast, fried my mushrooms with a bit of salt and garlic on bread fresh from the bakery. It was a great honour to know this great man who has a statue in gold in China. Even though he grew up in Taiwan, his science turned mushroom business, and especially the medicinal mushroom business into a multibillion dollar job generating machine.

ALT The tiny bee is called by the indigenous cultures of the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta "angelicas" or angels. The First Nations from the Mayans in Mexico to the Guaraní and Chiquitano of Bolivia, over the Kogis, Ahuacos and Wiwa of Colombia domesticated these peace loving bees for over a thousand years. They are threatened by agrochemicals and by the introduction of European and African bees.










