it’s time to build a boat
a canoe actually. Setting off early tomorrow morning for a mini-residency at Bundanon, about 3 hours south of Sydney, on an historic property now managed as a trust. This is going to be yet another chapter for Siteworks, “[…] an ongoing series of interactive projects focusing on the unique Bundanon properties: 1100 hectares of pristine […]
Last moon of summer, and wild olives
It’s nearly Autumn, or like, what you would call Autumn. Sure enough the olives are turning green, juicy and readying themselves. You’re talking about the wild ones, the ones no one collect or brag about. Still, they are aplenty, and the wildlife enjoys them too. If anyone would want to wait that the fruits got […]
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 […]
passing on some good writing
Patrick Jones is an artist, permaculturalist and dad from Melbourne. At the moment busy with the setting up of a food forest as part of the incoming show at the MCA, In the Balance, check out the progress here and some more of his writings here. Here you would like to share an article by […]
This is funny
so, you have been bragging about spontaneous flora from a while, and it somewhat feels strange this, but you are now involved in a garden project, www.tending.net, where in collaboration with Lucas Ihlein and anybody else who would like to join in the adventure, are going to somewhat grow things! yes, that’s right, actual seeding, […]
on glorious food
It’s spring here in the campagna Romana (Roman hinterland) , and you surrounded at the moment by seasonal treats: wild cicory, wild garlic, dandelions and flat weed, wild asparagus and a similar spring growth from an unrelated bush: Ruscus aculeatus (Butcher’s broom). How perfect, the visit from your good friend Marga gave reason for a […]
on media
Hi all, Weedyconnection got feautured in the local Sydney media last week, with an article about urban foraging, read the article here, while today there was a broadcasting of an interview for ABC Radio National’s Bush Telegraph. Readers can download the sound here, or listen to the stream here.
On Wild Food and Foraging
You found a pubblication distributed via the Free Range Activist Network (FRAW), a loose collection of actions and initiatives with the common goal of improoving living experiences towards a world concerned more with sustainability than economy. Their website is a portal to a number of amazing projects, indicative of the effort of many. Below is […]
On passing on someone elses writings
Working in Venice at the moment, assisting Cordeiro+Healy in their contribution to the Biennale. In the occasional spare time you go around looking for ancient trees and secret gardens. In the mean time this article was suggested by Lucas: Becoming native to this large place All around the countryside, growers of various nationalities have been […]
on pdfs or, on describing nature using unorthodox points of refernce
You’ve been sent this article from the New York Times of 1910. It’s a peculiar offer, yet, you liked the story of an amateur ornithologist of the turn of the last century, who by observation alone, presented the Thayer Theory. After 25 years of research grounded on “description rather then observation” of Crows, gulls, warbles […]
