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Wild Stories, the exhibition

WILD STORIES
Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre
1/12/12 – 31/1/13

“Imagine a world where we are all connected with nature – all species cohabitating in harmony, giving space to each other and allowing for the survival and thriving of each and one another.”

- Diego Bonetto

Artist, naturalist and forager, Diego Bonetto presents Wild Stories, an exhibition and public program about community [...]

SouthSydneyHeraldOCT11pg12

SouthSydneyHeraldOCT11pg12, a photo by the weed one on Flickr.

Great article about what you do, how and why.
By Christine Morrow on the South Sydney Herald
Read the rest of the paper [...]

a couple of links about weeds

The Last Stand of the Wild Flowers, as it appeared on the Independent a few years back.
A poetic ode to weeds:

To judge by the scores of visitors to the farm this year, weed-seeking is becoming a new country sport. So far Helen has taken 25 parties out among the weeds, and the demand is “more than [...]

Toecutter’s garden

a visual essay of a friend’s garden, overgrown, and now curated by Mickie and Amity.
In it thrives a mixture of botany, from declared weeds to old garden’s orphans, all happy and fertile, the local birds population is very fond of this garden, parakeets, magpies, and mynahs inhabit the trees and the grounds. Lots of insects too.
you [...]

On weeds etc..

And yet another great radio documentary by ABC Radio National, this time written and presented by Noƫlle Janaczewska.
Touching on many aspects of the complexities that weeds inhabit, from wildlife xenophobia to cultural heritage Vs environmental integrity, this documentary makes extensive use of film and music excerpt. You really enjoyed the impersonation of the legisaltion, when actors [...]

passing on some good writing

Patrick Jones is an artist, permaculturalist and dad from Melbourne.
At the moment busy with the setting up of a food forest as part of the incoming show at the MCA, In the Balance, check out the progress here and some more of his writings here.
Here you would like to share an article by him about foraging [...]

This is funny

so, you have been bragging about spontaneous flora from a while, and it somewhat feels strange this, but you are now involved in a garden project, www.tending.net, where in collaboration with Lucas Ihlein and anybody else who would like to join in the adventure, are going to somewhat grow things!
yes, that’s right, actual seeding, planting, watering [...]