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seasons

Quarter days

Aside 19 October 2014 gs

New series on the yearly cycle in the croplands, based around the quarter days and cross quarter days – check The Year.

Images from xq3, the early-August cross quarter day (Living Field)
Images from xq3, the early-August cross quarter day (Living Field)
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The Living Field project connects through Twitter.  No new plantings in 2020/21 but @LField2020 is posting seasonal images and notes from past years as well as news on current web activity, while  @curvedflatlands will link to current research and debate in sustainability and biodiversity.

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    • About
      • From a muddy field …..
    • Origins of the Living Field
  • News
    • News 2019 and earlier
  • Climate and Sustainable Food
    • Climate and Crops
      • Solar Income
      • Under the Cloud
      • Solar Capture
      • Life Cycle | Growth Habit | Uniformity
      • Temperature
      • Long Cool Summer
      • Water Cycle
    • Events, Trends and Trajectories
      • The first crops
    • Food Systems Now
      • Global wheat – status now
  • DIARY21
    • DIARY21: April – June
    • DIARY21 January to March
  • 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
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    • 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
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      • Winter flood
        • The late autumn floods of 2012

Notes Images

  • Owlbirds 4 April 2022
  • Middle world of the Jains 11 March 2022
  • Making ink from oak galls 23 February 2022
  • Creative metalwork 14 February 2022
  • Sculpted in stone 4 February 2022
  • Ancient and Modern – Techniques with wool in textile Art 11 January 2022
  • Winter solstice revisited 22 December 2021
  • BREAD making – Kashmir 1850 27 November 2021
  • Gool Rider Gool Rider 31 October 2021
  • SEDA Land Conversations 2021 27 October 2021
  • Scarecrow 16 October 2021
  • More paper and pots from grass pea 1 October 2021
  • Medicinals through the ages I 30 August 2021
  • The Garden at Hospitalfield 6 August 2021
  • Fearnag Growers – a Community 19 July 2021
  • Recollections of the Meadow 11 July 2021
  • Pictish Knotwork 14 June 2021
  • Interlacing on the Pictish Ulbster Stone 30 May 2021
  • Ghost Calls 20 May 2021
  • Pilewort 24 April 2021

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  • Owlbirds 4 April 2022
  • Middle world of the Jains 11 March 2022
  • Making ink from oak galls 23 February 2022
  • Creative metalwork 14 February 2022
  • Sculpted in stone 4 February 2022
  • Ancient and Modern – Techniques with wool in textile Art 11 January 2022
  • Winter solstice revisited 22 December 2021
  • BREAD making – Kashmir 1850 27 November 2021

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  1. The world habitable by humans, Gujarat 18-19th century. British Library.

    Middle world of the Jains

    11 March 2022 gs

  2. Drawings from stone-carved artwork, 8th or 9th century, Pictish, by K Owen

    Sculpted in stone

    4 February 2022 gs

  3. From an album on trades in Kashmir 1850-1860, British Library

    BREAD making – Kashmir 1850

    27 November 2021 gs

  4. Vida’s painting of a fantastical creature in the Slovenia landscape. More on … Vida’s work and life provided by her family.

    Scarecrow

    16 October 2021 gs

  5. Here is another selection of handmade paper and a pot made from grass pea by Caroline Hyde-Brown. See how she does it at Repurposing grass pea …

    More paper and pots from grass pea

    1 October 2021 gs
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