on the ones you didnt know
Autumn slowly draw the curtain at a humid and stormy summer, the forests of australia sprouting mushrooms at a rate not been seen from a while. So much rain we had in the past 8 months, more than many years’ averages. We went to the Belanglo State Forest, looking at the place you read about […]
on sowthistle
Pic from the Royal Botanic Garden Herbarioum AKA: DE : Kohl-Gänsedistel ; ES : cerraja común ; FR : laiteron maraîcher ; IT : grespino comune, sonco ; PT : serralha-macia ; EN : smooth sow-thistle ; NL : gewone melkdistel ; DK : almindelig svinemælk This is one of two Sonchus spp. (Sowthistles) that […]
on windows of opportunity
Coming up this saturday is a fantastic event: Gang! Gang takes its name from the Indonesian word meaning alleyway or small side street and commenced life in 2005 as a celebration of the deep links between independent art spaces and collectives across the two countries. This years festival is called “ART DAY IS TODAY†after […]
on environmental footprints
From Sam Hofmann’s blog: Politics aside – the questions for me was and still is : ‘How do cultures modify landscapes’ ; ‘How do we recognise ourselves in an increasingly globalised world?’ ; ‘ What is the ‘real’ Australia? . Quite a large question , but my increasing interest in Permaculture and the concept of […]
stop mowing your bloody lawns!
Found this: As we seek to integrate our agricultural systems with the landscape, in a way that follows an ethic of bioregional stewardship, the native and naturalized flora of our region offer a uniquely diverse resource. The plants that surround us have co-evolved with, and supported humans in a myriad of ways through the millennia. […]
you keep writing about rain..
It’s raining, it finally came, was building-up from about ten days.. at first was a temperate late October then the wind from the west came.. it was dry and extremely hot.. You slowly starting to know the winds, the ones coming from the south bringing rain while the ones coming from the north-west bringing hot […]
on interviewing adam
One of the good things coming out of this online presence is that gives you the chance to connect. Adam Fenderson came in contact with you the other week, suggesting to review some of his radio work, where he interviews various environmental practitioners. You decided to interview him in return, a person devoted to spread […]
on eating local food and reading far away blogs
You noticed an article on the Sydney Morning Herald inlet, Good Living, and found it quite amusing that you were just this week reading online about the same subject, the 100 Miles Diet. Pic by destabee You came across it through browsing other’s people links, the journeying started with searching youtube for environment-related shorts (see […]
On All The Things You Never Write Down And You Going To Forget If You Don’t
Feedback and tassles of ethnobotanical knowledge for the database always come abundant. Usually most of the information comes out of talking to people, little things here and there, that by now, you realized , if you don’t write down are going to be lost. Through this project you are learning that popular knowledge is an […]
Ahhh, Foraging!
There is a talk tomorrow, at Sydney, and as part of the event you are going to offer “weed tea”. Today you went foraging! You never went through Leacock Regional Park before, even if you always wanted to. A couple of years ago you applied twice to the Australian Council for the Arts and once […]
