Marie Claire going wild?

Anne Fullerton was on a mission. Enticed by the latest culinary crave for wild food, she decided to take on the challenge of preparing a dinner entirely sourced from urban wilderness. To do so she needed a guide to take her through the abandoned areas of Sydney and to point at the edible possibilities under […]

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 […]

humor! yes please

indeed, you laughed. While looking around in your connections you seldom come about new things/people/corners in the wide web.. little windows into someone else’s media adventure. This time you found an urban forager, or rather an urban scout as Peter Bauer introduce himself. A cheeky and light-hearted messenger, who likes to pose bare chested, mud […]

Weeds as a source for human consumption

From here Thanks to PFAF for the amazing work This paper was sent into PFAF by Martha Díaz-Betancourt Weeds as a future source for human consumption. Martha Díaz-Betancourt1, Ismael R. López-Moreno1, Eduardo H. Rapoport2, Luciana Ghermandi2 , Estela Raffaele2 and Ana Ladio2. 1. Instituto de Ecología, Ap. Postal 63, Coatepec, Veracruz, Mexico. 2. Universidad Nacional […]

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 street plantings and where the neighbourhood is

On the way to Chippendale you stopped, the artificial lake in Victoria Park gave reason for a picture: Ibises roosting on a willow. These majestic native birds are one of the winners of nowadays urban wildlife, as the wikipedia entry: Historically rare in urban areas, the Australian White Ibis has immigrated to urban areas of […]