LivingField2020

Living Field Garden at The James Hutton Institute Dundee UK, for education, outreach and life. No new plantings this year. Tweeting instead.

[Geoffrey Squire @curvedflatlands]

Great day at @BioregionTay meeting last Friday. Big Q: Can the landscape feed the people? We can start by defining what the land is doing now, then work out what it could do. Here, different land uses in an area are identified: next steps are trickier #ClimateTayside23

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@curvedflatlands @BioregionTay Such complex and ancient field patterns on that map

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More on the Society for Ecological Restoration Europe (SERE)’s YOUNG#ER recruitment drive. Links on the Living Field https://t.co/Ybw3DSCf1R. Heal the planet. Be part of the UN decade 2021-2030 #GenerationRestoration @unbiodiversity

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The Society for Ecological Restoration Europe (SERE)
https://t.co/FhePivSFSd is upping its successful recruitment drive, now with emph on students and young people (a career in restoration!). Check the SERE web for career guides and opportunities #500EERs YOUNG#ER

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Latest on the Living Field web: introduction to Kathryn Owen’s exploration of Pictish Beasts, her paintings of the beast carved on stone, locations throughout Scotland’s croplands https://t.co/bozCZW54jH

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With the Living Field garden no longer operating, the Editor was missing the annual display of ancient grains, so grew his own from saved seed. Such architectural splendour in these cereals - bere barley, emmer, black oat, rye, spratt barley. What’s like them today.

[LivingField2020 @LField2020]

With the Living Field garden no longer operating, the Editor was missing the annual display of ancient grains, so grew his own from saved seed. Such architectural splendour in these cereals - bere barley, emmer, black oat, rye, spratt barley. What’s like them today.

[LivingField2020 @LField2020]

Record drought, heat, fire in Europe make this year unprecedented, but eastern Scotland was no drier than previous dry years (1976, 1984, 1995, 2003, 2018). Fortunate maybe - but there’s a global duty to care for this cropland. Our analysis at https://t.co/SqqyhAe1KU

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Great day of Foraging Walks at Kinloss Abbey, Moray https://t.co/Al6lw8sLeM Sat 14 May: Anna Canning led foraging for medicinal plants in the abbey grounds @AnnaFloramedica: incl celandines and dandelions, docks, daisies and deadly nightshade; from monks to modern medicine.

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More inks by Jean Duncan, here trying out the range of colours from blending inks from oak gall (the black colour) and orzo ‘coffee’. Orzo’s an Italian speciality made from roasted barley grain.

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@JXDuncan Tuscan Hills. Leonardo. What a thought. Enjoy the search. G

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The Living Field’s long term artist friend Jean Duncan @JXDuncan has been experimenting with inks made from oak galls. See how she does it at https://t.co/lnL0ISSIkC

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War brings to world attention the complexity of supply chains for food crops and meat. Gross output (shown for wheat) is a major factor but production per person determines what’s spare for export. Western Europe has sufficiency. More at https://t.co/b5tA8pErA9

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David brown has worked as a farrier, shoeing horses, across Scotland, for years, then to the delight of family and friends, turned his hand to creative metalwork. See how he does it at https://t.co/jXDZfFDCA6

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See Ruth Black’s “Ancient and Modern: techniques with wool in textile art” - spinning, dyeing, weaving, felting, embroidery, laser cutting - influence of Pictish design at https://t.co/NIezusgu4o

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Very topical - congratulations to SEDA Land for airing this complex and potentially contentious issue

[Geoffrey Squire @curvedflatlands]

Good to be working with the Scottish Ecological Design Association’s @ScotEcoDesign SEDA Land: a group formed to move forward after the 6 Land Conversations held earlier this year. Here’s note of the next online conversation - on a carbon tax for land use, to be held 10 Nov 21

[Geoffrey Squire @curvedflatlands]

And here’s another example of Jean Duncan’s art @JXDuncan - maize root X section on maize husk paper from maize plants grown at the Living Field @JamesHuttonInst @Plant_Ionome @Plant_Ionome @LField2020

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Insanely in love? Want out? Betony’s4U @Hospitalfield. Hildegard’s (1098-1179) remedy (based on Throop trans): place leaves in each nostril, under the tongue, in each hand, under each foot … then fix your eyes on the betony until the leaves grow hot… https://t.co/YAT8xDilAt

[LivingField2020 @LField2020]

Insanely in love? Want out? Betony’s4U @Hospitalfield. Hildegard’s (1098-1179) remedy (based on Throop trans): place leaves in each nostril, under the tongue, in each hand, under each foot … then fix your eyes on the betony until the leaves grow hot… https://t.co/YAT8xDilAt

[LivingField2020 @LField2020]

DIARY21 @LField2020 continuing through to end December, a forwards and backwards diary beginning June: to give global context to the local state of climate, food security, biodiversity, cataclysms, human resilience. See it at https://t.co/kbY6AMZ5yt