Tag: plants
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Beans
A new personal essay by gardener-writer Mandy Goddard, making connections between farming, protest, and the beautiful ‘yin yang’ bean.
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Meadow Grass / Unmake the Land
“In the tracks of grazing cattle and the oak tree’s swell” – a pair of new poems about labour and the land by writer Hannah Green.
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Residency Reflections
Artist Rosa Farber, who currently lives and works at Laines Organic Farm, looks back at her online residency with The Learned Pig.
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Cartographies of the Imagination
Cartographies of the Imagination explores the outer limits of what a map can be, interrogating the bit of lost land that falls between the pages of an atlas, journeying to places known, unknown, forgotten and fictional. INTRODUCTION To map a place is to create a whole new one. Maps may begin…
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In the PoemGarden
A personal essay by Professor Alice Entwistle of the University of South Wales exploring the many connections between poetry and gardening,
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Lessons from Seed
A personal essay by seed researcher and baker Col Gordon on the complex relationships between plants, people and place.
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Bees, Art and Biodiversity
How can artists improve biodiversity? Philosopher, author and curator Sue Spaid’s 2020 lecture explains (includes video + edited transcript).
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Crosscutting / Night Strands / Homesteads
Three new poems from the farmlands of Idaho by Samuel Strathman.
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Going to Ground
Root systems as a metaphor for friends, family and routines: new lockdown garden paintings and drawings by artist Emma Cousin.
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Compassionate Climate Activism
Vermont-based environmental and social justice advocate Chris Gaynor on the compulsion to protect, educate and care for our species.
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Canopic Jars: the Afterlife of Matter
Artists Anna Walker and Genie Poretzky-Lee make use of glass jars as containers for an experimental process of growth and transformation.