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My Crown Of Weeds

You are reblogging here the words from Jennifer Hamilton, on the occasion when you went on an harvest to collect with her the necessary ingredients for a Crown Of Weeds… read on>>

“A long time ago I promised to think more about the crown of weeds in King Lear. On October 12, 2012, more than two years [...]

InsideOut TV comes to the Foraging Tour!

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Alack, ’tis he!

King Lear Act 4,
scene five CORDELIA:

Alack, ‘tis he! Why, he was met even now
As mad as the vexed sea, singing aloud,
Crowned with rank fumiter and furrow-weeds,
With hardokes, hemlock, nettles, cuckoo-flowers,
Darnel, and the idle weeds that grow
In our sustaining corn (IV.v.1-6)

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Weeds as a source for human consumption

From here
Thanks to PFAF for the amazing work

This paper was sent into PFAF by Martha Díaz-Betancourt

Weeds as a future source for human consumption.

Martha Díaz-Betancourt1, Ismael R. López-Moreno1, Eduardo H. Rapoport2, Luciana Ghermandi2 , Estela Raffaele2 and Ana Ladio2.
1. Instituto de Ecología, Ap. Postal 63, Coatepec, Veracruz, Mexico.
2. Universidad Nacional del Comahue, Departamento de Ecología, 8400 Bariloche, [...]

on perMapOesiS

Natural Bitterness from Patrick Jones on Vimeo.

a short video poem by Patrick Jones, permaculturalist, spoken word artist, poet, blogger, father, all of which in no specific order.

” the industries
of spontaneous flora.
an invisible abundance
that greed ignores ”

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On weeds etc..

And yet another great radio documentary by ABC Radio National, this time written and presented by Noëlle 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 [...]

oops, or rather, how to contextualise $60,000

“Bonetto’s work is a barometer of our times, exploring nature, fragility, sustainability and how we integrate ourselves in the natural environment. The work is particularly apt at this point of time with what is going on ecologically, economically and politically,” the committee noted.

It took a while to come up with this post.
You were awarded the Helen [...]

on new spaces, same neighborhood

You just took over a studio in Chippendale, next burb from where you live.
For 3 months you have been granted a studio residency as part of a pilot exercise by Fraser Property Australia, FraserStudios.
The developers purchased the brewery site from the Foster’s Group on June 29, 2007. In April 2008 Frasers began redeveloping the site as [...]