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Ribwort Plantago

Second installment of the Self-Guided Tour Panels: Ribwort Plantago

And here is the PDF version of the [...]

Sorrel Tortilla

Found this recipe on ‘Australian Weeds’ by Gay Stern.

Sorrel Tortilla

2 large potatoes, sliced into 10mm rounds
2 tablespoons oil
1 onion, finely sliced
2 shallots or spring onions, finely chopped
250g Sorrel leaves, finely chopped
6 eggs
sea salt and freshly ground black pepper, to taste
2 tablespoon freshly-grated Parmesan cheese

Parboil the potato rounds for 10 minutes so that they are still firm.
Heat [...]

Blakberry Panel

Here is the panel i made for the Self-Guided Tour of the Weeds of Australia now on at Wollombi.

Over the next weeks i will slowly upload all of the 10 panels.
The info-points are in PDF format, just download from this [...]

Tactical Sound Garden, cultivating sounds in public gardens

This guys from New York have yet another take on the relationship human/landscape.
Please read on.

Tactical Sound Garden [ TSG ] Toolkit

Given the ubiquity of mobile devices and wireless networks, and their proliferation throughout increasingly diverse and sometimes unexpected urban sites, what opportunities – and dilemmas – emerge for the design of public space in contemporary cities?

The [...]

Planetary creator of the Gardens

Landscape designer, essay writer, novelist, creator very inspired of the exposure of the “Planetary Garden”, Gilles Clément is one of the rare artists and French thinkers to have a holistic vision of the unit “ecology + culture.”

Gilles Clement
An article of Wikipédia, the free encyclopaedia.

Gilles Clément, born in Argenton (Indre) in 1943 is a gardener, landscape designer, [...]

Esculenta – The art of Spagna+Caretto

I’ve met Spagna and Caretto on my last trip to Italy, their work is not dissimilar to mine, but we differ in aims.
At the time the lovely couple were rescuing vegetables from the supermarket shelves to then replant and give them a new life!

Below is my attempt at transalting their project rationale.
Their website is well worth [...]