February 2012
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Seattle to Build Nation’s First Food Forest →
ver2go:
Seattle’s vision of an urban food oasis is going forward. A seven-acre plot of land in the city’s Beacon Hill neighborhood will be planted with hundreds of different kinds of edibles: walnut and chestnut trees; blueberry and raspberry bushes; fruit trees, including apples and pears; exotics like pineapple, yuzu citrus, guava, persimmons, honeyberries, and lingonberries; herbs; and more....
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Grand Designs - Ben Law and The Woodsman’s Cottage:
In this monumental documentary, the famous British woodsman Ben Law is covered as he plans and executes the development of the wooden house of his (and monay others’) dreams. Build entirely of wood that he himself has husbanded, on land that he has cared for, this represents the culmination of a lifetimes work and...
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gregorioyoufolkingmoron asked: HEY YOU HAVE A BEAUTIFUL TUMBLR AND THANKS FOR THE FOLLOW :)
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“I was angry with my friend:
I told my wrath, my wrath did end.
I was angry...”
– A Poison Tree -William Blake 1757-1827)
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Building a cob house →
“In such a dead world, Amelie prefers to dream until she’s old enough to leave...”
– Amelie (via thescurfofyesterdays)
Watch Johnny Flynn- The Ghost of O’Donahue
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“Vashti Bunyan: Learning Another Life
In July 1968, Vashti Bunyan set off by...”
– An inspiring interview with Vashti Bunyan. Finding out she’s an art schoolie and that she spent two years travelling from London to the Isle of Skye with a horse and cart to ‘live off the land’ just makes me love her even more.
fallingtofly asked: Hello, thanks for the follow. My name is Kyan and I hope things are going splendidly for you =]
“In our society, growing food yourself has become the most radical of acts. It is...”
– Jules Dervaes, founder of the Urban Homestead Project. Jules and his family harvest three-and-a-half tons of food each year from an urban plot that covers a mere tenth of an acre. They recount the project’s history: “We shelved our dreams of idyllic country living and ‘five acres and independence’...
raggedglory asked: let's go live in the woods together
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The man we use for life drawing in college winks at us whilst we draw him.
