June 30, a sunny and hot December+blogs by others

Today was the Marking Day for December, sunny and warm. Two other blogs need also mentioning: SamHoffmann’s, whose blog “documents activities and curiosity between Ecology , Performance , Sustainability, the Arts and Media”. Sam have written about weedyconnection recently, so this blog duly, reciprocates. Although is not a very busy site, there is an interesting […]

June 29, November’s Sun, and Weed Radio programs.

What a beautiful day, sun sun sun and rising temperatures. Predicting the weather for November? On another note Geraldine sent through a piece of interesting, but sadly common, agricultural politics: “[…]this morning with a report on radio national about farmers planting a south african grass which grows up to 4m tall, plenty of fodder for […]

June 28. October’s Day

Today was cloudy, with a few drops in the afternoon, over-all a bit warmer. So will be October?

On June 26, August Weather

Yesterday, the Marking Day for July (see previous post) ended-up to have long periods of sun, after a copious rain in the early hours, while today, Marking Day for August is shaping like a drenching one.So the prediction is: July> showers at the start of the month then fine; August> rain for most of the […]

On Predicting The Future- Ethnobotany for travellers

There’s a piece of ethnobotanical knowledge where it comes from, that farmers and land dwellers have been using for as long as is remembered. According to the formula if you keep track of the weather in the last six and the first six days of the year you’ll be able to predict the weather for […]

On Why You Could Eat The Whole Field-or why IT took so long to digest the lot-

You’re back, the 2007 Europe Art Grand Tour left you speechless for nearly a whole month, in both languages. Winter solstice (summer’s in the northern hemisphere) is on us, Sydney’s cold, and the endless summer you’ve been experiencing dissipated in an haze of jetlagged early mornings wakes. So much went through your head during this […]