You tube, like everybody else, and made a list of “weedyconnection-related” shorts..
This is the list. A bunch of shorts from anywhere plus a couple of yours. Subjects vary from self-help to self-health, from how to make a ground oven to how to make a soup with nettle. Some of them are straight lectures from various experts in environment, anthropology, alternative medicine, geography or all of the […]
On I don’t know about this IT businness, Thinking of going back to YOU
Blogging does something to your arguments, it gives you a platform unadulterated by difficult questions without the time to research the answers. Somewhat blogging strengthens your topic by allowing a slow unfolding of ideas. This is definitely true of the weedyconnection project and , in this case, blog. The slow unfolding of concepts allowed me […]
On the Rain Coming, Gardens of Mother-of-Millions and week-end’s readings
The rain is here -according to age old peasant knowledge from the other side of the world- should stay for a few more days, at least untill saturday the 14th, when the moon cicle will start again. This is if the imported knowledge is any use, or rightly interpreted. In the mean-time a visit to […]
On Weed Radio: Enemy or Ally?
Captain Cook metaphorically releasing a Pigeon in Sydney’s hide park: The ABC program, Weeds: Enemy or ally was good, and predictable at the same time. This blog heard all of those arguments before, the one criminalising botanical species, and the one acknowledging the botanical reality. Still a fantastic introduction to the thorny issue of environmental […]
June 29, November’s Sun, and Weed Radio programs.
What a beautiful day, sun sun sun and rising temperatures. Predicting the weather for November? On another note Geraldine sent through a piece of interesting, but sadly common, agricultural politics: “[…]this morning with a report on radio national about farmers planting a south african grass which grows up to 4m tall, plenty of fodder for […]
On Why You Could Eat The Whole Field-or why IT took so long to digest the lot-
You’re back, the 2007 Europe Art Grand Tour left you speechless for nearly a whole month, in both languages. Winter solstice (summer’s in the northern hemisphere) is on us, Sydney’s cold, and the endless summer you’ve been experiencing dissipated in an haze of jetlagged early mornings wakes. So much went through your head during this […]
On Venezia And The Silk Road
It may well be that for the next couple of months the frequency of postings will drop. You’re off. Today you will fly to Venice to work on the installation of this year’s Biennale for the Australian Council of the Arts. Over the next two months therefore the blogging will probably be more frequent on […]
On A Weed Man From New York
There is a man in New York who you admire a lot. He is funny, witty, knowledgeable and community oriented. His name is Steve Brill, but most people and media knows him by “Wildmanâ€. He describe himself as a ‘naturalist’ (whatever that means) and runs tours of city parks and accessible forests teaching people how […]
On Talking About It
You gave a talk today, at the ATVP Contemporary Art. You bacame good at it, by now the catch-frases flow out of your mouth, like the one on multiculturalism in Australia,”a display of funny costumes, funny dances, funny foods and funny accents”. It works all the time, it always catches some smiles. At times you […]
On Dogs And The Human Need To Interfere
You are not allowed dogs in Bundanon. It may seem to your readers that Dogs is a bit of a steer away from the usual subject of your posting. You need to explain it. Need to explain a time when some officials from an animal protection society came to your family farm. They came, assessed […]
