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    • 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
    • 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
    • Urban Field
      • Wild plants of the Acropolis
      • Mekong and Tay
    • Water-field
      • Inle, Burma (Myanmar)
      • Wetland rice
      • Winter flood
        • The late autumn floods of 2012
art, jean duncan

Root tips

Image 5 November 2017 gs

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

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Contrasting hayrack and Slovenian landscape : Vida's page on the Living Field (click image) gives more examples of her art

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The Living Field project is now connecting through Twitter.  @TheLivingfield will post updates on the Garden and its related events and activities. @curvedflatlands will link to current research and debate in sustainability and biodiversity.

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  • Welcome
    • About
  • News
  • 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
    • 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
    • Urban Field
      • Wild plants of the Acropolis
      • Mekong and Tay
    • Water-field
      • Inle, Burma (Myanmar)
      • Wetland rice
      • Winter flood
        • The late autumn floods of 2012

Notes Images

  • Pollinator Plants 21 February 2019
  • Three grain resilience 13 February 2019
  • Ancient grains at the Living Field – 10 years on 4 December 2018
  • Real time virtual field – tashibunosho rice 4 November 2018
  • Where art meets science: Singapore 21 October 2018
  • Fiberoptic 7 16 October 2018
  • Blue Lily 16 October 2018
  • Hutton Rocks! 9 September 2018
  • Fiberoptic 6 28 August 2018
  • Shandwick Stone panels 30 June 2018
  • Mashlum no more! Not yet 26 June 2018
  • Peasemeal Beremeal Oatmeal 4 June 2018
  • Crop diversification 16 May 2018
  • Crop Diversity at the Living Field 15 May 2018
  • Crop diversity – dyes 15 May 2018
  • Crop diversity – cereals 15 May 2018
  • Crop diversity – oils 15 May 2018
  • Crop diversity – legumes 15 May 2018
  • Bere country 1 May 2018
  • Mashlum – a traditional mix of oats and beans 16 April 2018

Tags

  • 1800s
  • agriculture
  • Andrew Wight
  • art
  • barley
  • bere
  • cereal
  • composite
  • corn
  • cross quarter day
  • dundee
  • dye
  • equinox
  • exhibition
  • fibre
  • field
  • flax
  • food
  • grain
  • insect
  • jean duncan
  • jute
  • landrace
  • landscape
  • lawson & son
  • legume
  • Living Field garden
  • maize
  • medicinal
  • mill
  • nitrogen fixer
  • oats
  • peas
  • seasons
  • Shetland
  • solstice
  • spring
  • summer
  • tree
  • tropical
  • vegetables
  • Vida Fakin
  • wheat
  • wild fruit
  • winter

sustainable croplands

Notes Comments

  • Pollinator Plants 21 February 2019
  • Three grain resilience 13 February 2019
  • Ancient grains at the Living Field – 10 years on 4 December 2018
  • Real time virtual field – tashibunosho rice 4 November 2018
  • Where art meets science: Singapore 21 October 2018
  • Fiberoptic 7 16 October 2018
  • Blue Lily 16 October 2018
  • Hutton Rocks! 9 September 2018

Images

  1. Complex geometry of a fan palm viewed from above (Squire/Living Field).

    Fiberoptic 7

    16 October 2018 gs

  2. Flower of a blue water lily beneath the ArtScience Museum, Singapore (Squire/Living Field)

    Blue Lily

    16 October 2018 gs

  3. Wasp nest, the size of a small football –  cool living space built early summer, vacated mid-August 2018.

    Fiberoptic 6

    28 August 2018 gs

  4. More to follow …

    Shandwick Stone panels

    30 June 2018 gs

  5. Exploring crop diversity at the Living Field …. new series starting with Crop diversification.

    Crop Diversity at the Living Field

    15 May 2018 gs
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