Category: Other’s Weeds Art

Harvesting mushrooms with foodies

Because of what you do you get to hang out a lot with food affecionados: chefs, caterers, providores, producers, distributors, believers and amateurs. The common threat is the love for produce, its possibilities and the discovery of natural ingredients at our door steps. It is Mushroom season and you have started running harvesting tours, where […]

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 […]

A review of the Wild Edibles workshops provided for Crave Sydney

This blog appeared on The Food Sage blog, see here for the original posting>> If you fancy yourself as a forager but don’t know a good edible plant from a bad one, let Diego Bonetto take you under his wild wing. Bonetto is hosting the Foraging in the City tour along the Cooks River in […]

Making a cookbook about foraging? yes please

Here’e the work of a group of people from New York, who with verve and good humor is offering a new way to look at the botany living around us. Great the statement “So why the focus on foraging? Well, we have to say a bit about spurse. We’re a collective of systems thinkers, and […]

On foraging and Videos, a poetic response

From Alex and Clare 🙂 Pioneers from vdmalex on Vimeo. 2010 we attended a ‘Weed Tour’ of Sydney Park, hosted by local artist Diego Bonetto as part of the Museum of Contemporary Art’s major exhibition ‘In The Balance: Art for a Changing World’. Diego introduced us to his friends – dandelion, wild mustard, sowthistle and […]

amazing databases

The Food Plants International database covers some 18,000 plants edibility, just falling short of the estimate of edible plants in the world, which according to Plant For a Future, is around 20,000. Great respect should be paid to the countless amount of people devoting so much of their time and knowledge for all to share, […]

Media for Wild Stories, reaching the local audience

Artist shares wild idea FARAH ABDURAHMAN 21 Mar, 2012 South West Advertiser EVERYDAY plants found in your backyard could have health and medicinal benefits. Diego Bonnetto, an artist with a love of all things botanical, has developed a movement within the local community to encourage foraging for wild plants. The artist is working in partnership […]

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 […]