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 […]
ta-daaaa
ok, here it is, Year of the Rabbit on its way, one of the hottest days you ever endured ( or at least this is what it feels like) and BANG, the first post of 2011 comes out… You could talk about so many things, so much went through without being recorded, but it kind […]
the served meal
the served meal, originally uploaded by the weed one. The steak came from a friend about to go in holiday, either you took it or it would have been wasted. The greens were foraged on a bike ride along cooks river, they are Warrigal greens (Tetragonia tetragoniodes) and Fat hen (Chenopodium album) They made for […]
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 […]
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 […]
On Plant’s Intelligence
Oh well, however nutty might sound, this guy present it with data and charm: Stefano Mancuso: the roots of plant intelligence From here
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 ” Read more here
on Weedbuster week and why you still at it
Ok, so you are going to offer 5 tours in the next month and a half, in 5 different locations. This is nothing new to your practice, as you have been using this ‘delivery’ concept as far back as 2002, when you first produced Weedkiller/Pestcotroller in an abandoned Drive In at Kingswood, Western Sydney. Since […]
on how to display botanical reality
Oxalis, living in enclosed environment, a terrarium. This growing plant is part of an exhibition at the MCA, opening this Friday, In The Balance, a show about art and environment. You have made a terrarium before, and this latest ones (5 of them) have been constructed by the expert hands of Ian and Matt, two […]
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, […]
