…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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…this morning in Upplands Väsby north of Stockholm with Swedish nature illustrator Bo Mossberg as our guide in preparatory research for the wild foragable rocky/woody landscape installation I’ll be constructing just out the doors for the central Väsby shopping mal..
…kicked off at first light on my last morning on the farm, to the sounds of the crew of Pugliesi – who specialize in this very particular work – moving trough the fields with chain saws and then long trimmers followed by small clippers, getting rid of anything that the tree doesn’t need that season ..
…by farmer Luciano on his big tractor gets the compacted clay soil ready for our planti..
…in Liverpool’s Everton Park has been installed today for the upcoming weekend of activities and conversations about the past and future of the park, marking the opening of the Liverpool Biennial…
…or Cylindropuntia spinosior, in the cactus gardens buried in the sloping pine woods of the Montalvo Arboretum and County Park – lights up with a halo of back-lit low sun this evening on a long-anticipated exploration of the grounds around our artist colony studio where we have our noses buried in work for ..
…or Achillea millefolium is a favorite pollinator attractor, providing a broad horizontal landing pad for lots of good airborne visitors – today found in Montalvo culinary fellow Niki Ford‘s garden just down the hill from my studio-for-..
…was a last minute inspiration this morning while in residence for the week at the hospitable and innovative Blood Mountain Foundation (smartly founded and graciously run by Hungarian-Aussie Jade Niklai and Aussie Tom Sloan – though presided over by their precious two year old Pepper) commissioners and producers of Edible Estate #12: Budapest, planted last ..
…was a quick welcome sight after hot days moving dirt and planning for tomorrow’s planting of the Foraging Spiral &..
…is the title of the 2011 book by Andrea Wulf I am just finishing, engrossed in the stories of gardening maniacs Washington, Jefferson, Madison, and Adams, and how that passion formed t..
…was the destination for a last-minute impulsive day trip – having enviously heard stories from friends of leisurely days spent there over the years; so heading north on the 2, east on the 210 (through the endless Inland Empire), up the 15 (where the San Gabriel Mountains meet the San Bernadino Mountains at the Cajon ..
..the scenic Hollywood Hills / Santa Monica Mountains park popular with fit youngish Angelenos in the ‘industry’ is not a place I get to visit very often, but wanting to make a gradual informal tour of the wild regions of the city, it’s where I headed today for a hike up and sweaty jog down. ..
…or Romneya coulteri, or fried-egg flower, are the towering white petaled and yellow native Californians whose drama is greeting visitors to the Theodore Payne Foundation right now (the place I can’t get enough of, and where I have returned today for some native grape vines, currants, sages, and such) – which of course leads to ..
…out the geodesic dome window from bed this morning is reminding me of Ita..
…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 ..
…of Midwestern monoculture are giving me something to look at and think about while anticipating a return to L.A. home at long la..
…is usually the preferred route when I have a choice while navigating the city by foot through that part of lower NYC, which is more and more dominated by NYU lately, though walking through the park today on a warm spring afetrnoon, you still get a sense of of that lively youth culture meeting the ..
…looms over the house, only for a few days every spring it becomes a blossomy pink giant, reminding us of w..
…where I’m returning for a Monday meeting of the Princeton Student Colony – we pass over the always surprising lush wooded landscape, before the abrupt shift to the industrial coast, and the descent to Newar..
…gets the day going right off the plane – for meetings with community members about their concerns with, and hopes for, the place, with a visit to some nascent urban food garden plots, and then a tour by a local historian telling the amazing tale of this strange new green space which was cleared of ..
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