One of the perks of permaculture
October 24, 2006
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Purple basil seed heads bowing down to the ground, they may re-seed at any moment.
Inondation! K’tje tells me that tout le monde has been suffering terribly with the flooding of the allotments down in Gawd’s Own Country. My feeling is, since my garden is situated in a flood plain, it’s reasonable to surrender to the idea of the occasional inundation. Plus I have an ugly shed that could do with a bit of drifting.
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Ever since A. built it, I have been praying that a flood would come and wash this blight of vernacular architecture away. Instead the flood just caused the morning glory to flourish. L’chaim to the shed-eating morning glory!
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Clearly Yves has not been tucking into the leafy greens.
But the threat of flooding is just one of the many reasons why I’m loving my permaculture garden right now. Except for the utter destruction of the vertical elements and the mysterious washing away of the calabash gourds, you can’t even tell that my garden was flooded. Some people have another word for that, I choose to call it permaculture.
It’s a method.
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Mysterious absence of calabash gourds! K’tje suggests that they may have been ‘flushed’ away by the flood. Her words, not mine. I just can’t help but wonder if the threat of a calabash chandelier from Sinterklaas didn’t have something to do with their disappearance.
Thank you KvR for all of the images in this posting.
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Design in Marketing and Communication
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Image of design and trend guru Li Edelkoort blurred and playfully purpled almost beyond recognition, but not entirely. Used without permission.
Whereas I’m sure that any of us can come up with a sexier conference title, it’s thrilling to see so much food related design and sustainability in the programme lineup. This two-day conference with the most boring title in the world deserves our attention, if for no other reason than that there are nearly an equal number of male and female speakers. I’ll be there, and I’ll return with a wordy and personable event review.
In English.
Wednesday afternoon’s programme will include a tour of the spanking new Design Academy exam show and a short ceremony for the Sustainability in Design Award 2006. That’s not the end of the action. Dinner is a brainstorm session with Gijs Bakker (Droog Design) in which all the smart people will be encouraged to speak out loud. But it is espeically Thursday that has peaked my curiosity, ‘breakout sessions’ with Katja Gruijters, Marije Vogelzang and Birgitta deVos et l’Ă©minence grise, Li Edelkoort keeping it real as keynote speaker.
- Wednesday and Thursday, 25 & 26, October, 2006
Design Academy Eindhoven
www.designconference.nlspeakers:
• katja Gruijters, food designer, studio Katja Gruijters
• ilse Crawford creative director Studio Ilse Londen
• gijs Bakker director Droog Design
• hans Lensvelt creative director Gispen, co-founder Moooi
• marije Vogelzang food designer Proef
• john McLaren director corporate communication Akzo Nobel
• tom Dixon non-executive director for Habitat
• patrick Kuijsters director branding & marketingcommunication KPN
• aad Boon directeur marketing & communication UPC
• marja Ruigrok director Ruigrok | NetPanel
• michel van Tongeren, director SVT Branding Design
• tim Selders, director PARK
• birgitta de Vos, Soul Matters
• gert Kootstra, Design Management NetwerkGet on the horn: +31 (0)40 297 49 77
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More mushroom foraging and gloating
October 21, 2006
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In the woods near Amsterdam, culiblog covergirl Marlein O. takes a break from mushroom hunting to relax into a moss covered chaise and carve at a piece of clove-studded cheese.
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Just one hour into the hunt, and the basket is half-full.
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Back home we marvel at the abundant harvest. Let the wingflapping begin.
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Bright and early next day it’s time to remove the gooey spongiform gills…
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…slice the boletes thinly and set out to dry.
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Today it’s raining, giving us another reason to gloat. We’re hoping for rain all weekend and sun during the week to come.
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