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Ribes sativum
These white currants are growing in my friends’ (Ruth & Oliver) compound on Cortes Island. They are an albino sport of the red currant, with lower acidity and a chalky seed. And they look like...
View ArticleKnotweed picking in springtime New York
Something to look forward to next spring! From culinate.comMy friend Leda and I are partners in crime. We conspire to pick noxious weeds in a public park, which, technically, is against the law. I...
View ArticleThe relationship between supermarket chains and voracious species
From Self Sufficientish.com, the urban guide to almost self sufficiency (Urban Homesteading):Paul Kingsnorth likens this plant to a major supermarket in his book real England. The following paragraph...
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Uncommon Ground
OpenStudios_Fall09_013.jpg Victoria Estok and Steve Lambert, Uncommon Ground. Photo: Christine A. Butler courtesy of Eyebeam. Uncommon Ground is a sound installation created in collaboration by Steve...
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Interactive Plant Growing
Picture 18.pngDesigning interfaces between vegetal and device-related systems, between man and machine, is one of the greatest challenges of interactive technology. No differently than in the...
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Taproot
Been thinking a bit about taproots as a good model for stubborn ideas.A taproot is an enlarged somewhat straight to tapering plant root that grows vertically downward. It forms a center from which...
View ArticleJasmine Becomes Contraband in China – NYTimes.com
Beginning in February, when anonymous calls for a Chinese “jasmine revolution” began circulating on the Internet, the Chinese characters for jasmine have been intermittently blocked in cellphone text...
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