Category : gardens

…in downtown Los Angeles with rooftop farming friend Annie Novak (who is doing research for an upcoming book) was an inspiring/informative discovery, understanding how to grow food in this extreme industrial environment we were nerding-out on issues of irrigation, pollination, germination, decomposition, and general soil / ai..

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…meaning “Matan the gardener” in Hebrew, is the super cool gardener, nursery owner, organic food garden activist/facilitator who we traveled 30 minutes north of Tel Aviv to visit today – conducting a video interview with him about the historic and current conditions of Israeli urban food production and gathering plants for  Edible Estate #13 in ..

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…this morning – after a 22 hours of travel, a 2:30am landing, and five hours of deep sleep – we headed south to Holon for some meeting, interviewing, planning, calculating, and designing for the selected site of Edible Estate #13 before meeting with local community garden organizer Orna Yukevitch, who took me on a tour of ..

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…are a helpful to see today, both in preparation for a June project here, and also planting in the similar climate of the Twin Cities in just a two weeks of for Edible Estate #15, so today we are at the extensive botanic gardens, Bergianska Trädgården, at the university, where in particular it the simulated ..

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…has continued gradually in the Minneapolis Sculpture Garden (commissioned by the Walker Art Center) over this week that started with snow and sleet and is ending with sunny summer weather – and though the wild plants, trees and shrubs (like asparagus, apple, mint, strawberry, rhubarb…) are little and struggling to occupy our mound of fertile ..

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…with Alice Waters this afternoon (wearing the crazy 10 foot long triangular multi-indigo-blue linens and cottons shawl/scarf I had just knit and presented to her at lunch – relieved that it was actually wearable) was a much anticipated first chance visit to the revolutionary and influential garden and ‘edible education’ program she founded in 1996 ..

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…(my favorite variety by far) seeds from last years squash were casually seeded all over the garden this winter, producing this summer’s crazy scrambling vines which are gratefully taking over large parts of the garden – especially the newly established area under what was the carob tree – now focused on Jed Ceasar’s sculpture (this ..

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…sprouted up as wild volunteers in a bed of succulents I just established at my curb this winter, and as usual the tomatoes growing on my sanctioned plants (twelve) that have been lavished with attention, thick layers of compost to enrich the soil, and structures to grow up, have been completely outperformed by the scrappy one ..

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…story is making it’s way through the media these days (Huffington, Boing Boing, CBC, Daily Mail UK, Montreal Gazette, and Treehugger to name a few) – this time it is in front of the Drummondville, Quebec home of Josée Landry and Michel Beauchamp featuring an elaborate and highly designed installation of raised beds and trellises covered with food producing plants that ..

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…my project for the Liverpool Biennial, started this morning with a digger rolling over the bowl of Everton Park – first opening up a hole in the ground for a team of collaborating National Museums Liverpool archeologists searching for the remains of St. Benedict’s Church previously standing at the entry to the garden site (which ..

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…has been on my mind since I first noticed some of those pods plumping up a few weeks ago, and this afternoon I have the gumption to hunt them all down one by one,  then to a stump in the shade to shell, and finally to the kitchen where they go into the the big ..

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…in their crowded bed – lovingly raked, graded, laid out, and sprinkled with compost just this winter – is dusty green, bright green, lettuce green, strawberry green, onion green, pea green, kale green, calendula green, and a little yellow from the small flowers produced by the beautiful bolting..

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…or Centranthus ruber, has been creeping around the gardens here for years, looking great and flowering and continually coming back with little encouragement or even a drop of rain through the summer months, and this season it is especially happy – covering the slope at the front steps with it’s happy pink flowers – and ..

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