The rest of my practice
Hi all, didnt resolve the keyword issue yet, will work on it, but in the mean time I have to focus on other projects I’m involved in with imminent due dates: together with defending the right of weeds to exist, I also collaborate with the SquatSpace collective. SquatSpace is part of a project soon/now on […]
Just playing with the presentation
Sorry everyone for the inconvenience, but I’m having trouble with a feature I’m trying to add to this blog: Keyword search. Once it works it will facilitate topical searches for all of you users, but at the moment is messing-up my pages. I’ll resolve it, learning new skills as i get through it! Cheers PS. […]
The Smell of BushFires and SubTropical Sydney
I’m back! i’m back in a city where the morning start with tropical rain, while last night you could smell the not-so distant bushfires. I have so much to write, starting with a post on resolutions: 4 months on this blog writing about found material, is it working for me? resolutions: -start to come out>>>by […]
Blog maintenance
Hi all, i’m in holiday, as in not working and/or running around for this or that, altough the projects never stop, so i had a bit more time to get virtually around, see what other people blog. Did also a bit of administration, in July 06 i started a prototype of this blog on blogger, […]
Research trip, i.e holiday time!
Well, its holiday time and finally the long-planned trip back to my indigenous country (Torino district, Italy) is about to happen! I will be going for 5 weeks, catching-up on gossip, family dramas and sourcing the great knowledge of wild food which is my mother. It will be great to keep mine and my two […]
The Rush Creek Wilderness Trail
OK, Ok, this one has got nothing to do with weeds -apart from the obvious chance to find an erray of non-indigenous species through the trail- but i just loved it! did you ever wondered about the world with goggle earth? well this people took it to the next step, read on… The Rush Creek […]
Bach Flower Remedies
In the Weedyconnection Database a number of plants have in their Other Uses section a Bach entry. Here I explain what the Bach Flower Remedies are. Almost all of the 38 species used in Bach Remedies are listed in some sort of warning weed list, some are even enlisted in the Weeds of National Significance […]
Viva Davide! we’re multilingual
Thanks to Davide Pozza’s Open Source plugin Global Translator we can now see all of the posts in 8 languages: Italian,French German, Portuguese, Spanish, Korean, Chinese and Japanese. The flags on top of the posts will dynamically translate the page in the chosen language by using the Google Translation Engine. At times the Translations are […]
Presenting weedy connections
On Tuesday 24 I presented the WeedyConnection project to a small crowd as part of the Environment Week lecture series at the University of Sydney. Here is the Power Point Presentation I prepared for the talk, just immagine an handsome speaker with a non- anglo-celtic accent presenting the slides one by one! You will need […]
Natural Sequence Farming
Peter Andrews, is a third generation farmer who has been involved in farming and horse breeding for 60 years. He grew up on a property near Broken Hill area and spent much time with his stockman father and members of the Aboriginal community learning to read the country. He believes that heavy grazing of streambed […]
