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on how to make a bark canoe

Historians Jim Walliss and instigator Diego Bonetto collaborate with artists Steve Russell and Noel Lonesborough from Boolarng Nangamai Aboriginal Corporation to tackle the challenge of making a traditional (Aboriginal) Jervis Bay canoe from the bark of a stringybark tree sourced on the Bundanon property.

The canoe was constructed in eight hours – following clear directions provided by [...]

On hoW to pRepAre prIckLY peAr

Nopal, or prickly pear, has many uses, the most common being culinary. Mexican and South American cooking frequently calls for this versatile vegetable, and it is gaining popularity for its practicality and health benefits. Nopal is high in soluble fiber and low in calories at just five per ½ cup.

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Instructions

Things You’ll Need
Gloves (optional)
Paring knife
Vegetable peeler

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back in Bundanon

In Bundanon for a week, the starting point of a project which sparked off from your involvement with SiteWorks (please click the link to know more).

As a spin-off from the amazing laboratory that SiteWorks was, you and Jim Wallis decided to propose a series of mini residencies here, where you will look at the botany of [...]

on privet posters, or rather, how you got there via a busy year

Somewhere you read 2008 is the year of getting busy building for the future..uhmm
Sure you where busy up to now!
This post is just to make a list of what you have been up to so far and a few upcoming events as well.
You, reader, might or might not know you are involved in a number of [...]

Dandelion Paellata, a Weed Recipe

Lucas and Lizzy came for dinner, so you made-up a recipe using Dandelion and whatever you had in the cupboard.

It turned up to be a cross between a spanish vegetarian Paella and a frittata, therefore the name, Paellata.

Ingridients:
4 cups of Dandelion leaves, chopped
4 eggs
1 cup of rice
1 onion, chopped
3 cloves of garlic, chopped finely
6 medium [...]

Weed Meal

Day 6,
you and Tom went to the island today, a wide stretch of sand deposited by the river.
You spear-headed this walk primarily to follow a tip-off of a Prickly Pear (Opuntia Spp.) bush.
“you get to the end of the track, where the rocky expanse is. There, on the left, there’s a group of she-oaks. Just under, [...]

Carving A Path Through Lantana Taller Than You

Day5,
you just came back to the studio, longing for the keyboard.
The crickets outside compete with the fridge noise.
Today Jim came to visit, he documented in a cd Rom the environment of Bundanon, frogs, mammals, fungi, plants.
His work gathered information far apart and his knowledge filled your day.

You discovered native Solanums today, like Devil’s Needles (Solanum stelligerum), [...]

You Weed

Day 3,
The Internet is fully working by now and you feel like changing the subject, fed up with the first person approach you imposing your readers.
You like the idea of getting rid of the “I” as a cheap literally tool to draw in first person your reader.

After all this is a writing exercise, innit?

Bundanon is getting [...]

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