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        • Beans on toast – a liquid lunch
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Image 5 November 2017 gs

By Jean Duncan. More on Jean’s work with the Living Field.

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The Living Field project connects through Twitter.  No new plantings in 2020 but @LField2020 is posting seasonal images and notes from past years beginning at the Spring equinox. @curvedflatlands will link to current research and debate in sustainability and biodiversity.

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  • Welcome
    • About
      • From a muddy field …..
  • News
  • Climate
    • Climate and Crops
      • Solar Income
      • Under the Cloud
      • Solar Capture
      • Life Cycle | Growth Habit | Uniformity
      • Temperature
      • Long Cool Summer
  • The Garden
    • Habitats
      • Meadow
      • Pond and ditch
      • Hedge and tree
      • Cornfield
    • Living exhibits
      • Cereals
        • Barley landraces and old varieties in the garden 2015
      • Legumes
      • Medicinals
      • Dye plants
      • Vegetables
    • Previously in the Garden
    • The making
      • Fencing and levelling
      • Hedge, wall and tree
      • Real estate
      • First plantings
      • Dundee show 2004
    • Plants
      • Cotton thistle
      • Marsh marigold
      • Bee plants
  • The Year
    • Energy and light: no life without the sun
    • XQ1 February
    • Spring equinox
    • XQ2 May
    • Summer solstice
    • XQ3 August
    • Autumn equinox
    • XQ4 November
    • Winter solstice
  • People
    • Hutton wildflower seeds 2020
    • Vida Fakin
      • Exhibition Ljubljana 2015
      • Memories of Mojca
    • Jean Duncan Artist
      • Anniversary designs and sketches
      • The beauty of roots
    • Reno by Grissel
    • Tina Scopa
      • Edaphic plant art
      • Plant pressing workshops with the JHI
    • Scaperiae
    • dundeeastro
      • Clouds on the summer horizon
      • Dundeeastro new observatory and telescope 2018
  • 5000 – Plants
    • Fibres
      • Fibre species
      • Fibres in the croplands
      • Sources references links contacts
    • Legumes
      • Beans on Toast
        • Beans on toast – a liquid lunch
        • Seed to sewer – the water footprint
        • Where does our food come from?
    • Dyes
      • Dye plants in the croplands
      • Sources references links contacts – dyes
    • Crop-weeds
      • Source crops for volunteers and ferals
      • The Brassica complex
      • Potato
    • Weeds
      • Weeds – sources references links contacts
  • Global Field
    • Inle, Burma (Myanmar)
    • Wild plants of the Acropolis
    • Mekong and Tay
    • Water-field
      • Winter flood
        • The late autumn floods of 2012

Notes Images

  • Pilewort 24 April 2021
  • Repurposing Grass Pea as an Embroidered textile and handmade paper 19 March 2021
  • Pots and paper from Grass pea 24 February 2021
  • Bere Barley at the Living Field 22 January 2021
  • Through the Solstice 28 December 2020
  • Common Grains | Seed Sovereignty 21 December 2020
  • Weed, ointment, snack? 18 November 2020
  • Remembrance 8 November 2020
  • Dye plants, Dyestuffs and natural fibres 5 November 2020
  • Bee-plants – Compositae 1 November 2020
  • Food systems are adapting to the pandemic … so far 25 May 2020
  • Illustrating crop-grass mixtures 10 May 2020
  • Grannie Kate’s spicy two pulse patties 1 May 2020
  • First tweet 13 April 2020
  • Agrostographia 29 March 2020
  • Quick and tasty flatbreads with gram flour 13 February 2020
  • Edible campus 4 February 2020
  • Five spheres around the food chain 5 January 2020
  • Key pattern in natural fibre 22 December 2019
  • Nourish Conference 2019 – lessons for the Living Field 5 December 2019

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Notes Comments

  • Pilewort 24 April 2021
  • Repurposing Grass Pea as an Embroidered textile and handmade paper 19 March 2021
  • Pots and paper from Grass pea 24 February 2021
  • Bere Barley at the Living Field 22 January 2021
  • Through the Solstice 28 December 2020
  • Common Grains | Seed Sovereignty 21 December 2020
  • Weed, ointment, snack? 18 November 2020
  • Remembrance 8 November 2020

Images

  1. Caroline Hyde-Brown www.theartofembroidery.co.uk sent the Living Field these images of pots coloured with natural dyes and crafted paper, all made from the legume Grass Pea. More to follow ….

    Pots and paper from Grass pea

    24 February 2021 gs
  2. One of a series of drawing by K Owen in the 1980s: the common mallow goes unnoticed or pulled out as a garden weed, but, like other mallows, its mucilage was once prized as a poultice or ointment.

    Weed, ointment, snack?

    18 November 2020 gs
  3. ‘And those who walk this blessed land ….. their souls shall never cease’ (From War Horse, Tams)

    Poppies over the years in the Living Field garden …..

    Remembrance

    8 November 2020 gs
  4. Selection of dye plants, dyestuffs and dyed fibres – the Living Field’s 5000-years of natural Dyes

    Dye plants, Dyestuffs and natural fibres

    5 November 2020 gs
  5. Memories of summer – some of the Garden’s best bee-plants among the Compositae (Living Field collection, first published 2019)

    Bee-plants – Compositae

    1 November 2020 gs
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