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      • Meadow
      • Pond and ditch
      • Hedge and tree
      • Cornfield
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      • Cereals
        • Barley landraces and old varieties in the garden 2015
      • Legumes
      • Medicinals
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    • Previously in the Garden
    • The making
      • Fencing and levelling
      • Hedge, wall and tree
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      • 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
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      • Wild plants of the Acropolis
      • Mekong and Tay
    • Water-field
      • Inle, Burma (Myanmar)
      • Wetland rice
      • Winter flood
        • The late autumn floods of 2012
seasons, spring

Sun at last

Image 5 May 2014 gs
Marsh marigold flower at XQ2 (Living Field /Squire)
Marsh marigold flower at XQ2 (Living Field /Squire)
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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
  • 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
    • 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

  • 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
  • Living Field to M15 (33,000 light years away) 1 November 2019
  • The Tang Shipwreck and Orkney Simmens 31 October 2019
  • Ready steady mundify (your barley) 16 October 2019
  • Banana flowers, custard apples, fresh coconut and much more 26 September 2019
  • The Library of Innerpeffray 23 September 2019
  • Moon rills and Apollo 15 23 July 2019
  • Diverse ‘grass’ mixtures in the living field meadow 15 July 2019
  • Veg posters from open farm sunday 13 June 2019
  • Living Field garden from the air 6 June 2019
  • Vegetable map made real 5 June 2019

Tags

  • 1800s
  • agriculture
  • Andrew Wight
  • art
  • astronomy
  • barley
  • bean
  • beans
  • bere
  • cereal
  • corn
  • cross quarter day
  • dundee
  • dye
  • equinox
  • exhibition
  • fibre
  • flax
  • food
  • food health
  • food security
  • grain
  • insect
  • jean duncan
  • landrace
  • landscape
  • legume
  • Living Field garden
  • maize
  • medicinal
  • nitrogen fixer
  • oats
  • potato
  • seasons
  • Shetland
  • spring
  • summer
  • swede
  • tree
  • tropical
  • vegetables
  • Vida Fakin
  • wheat
  • wild fruit
  • winter

sustainable croplands

Notes Comments

  • 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

Images

  1. A botanical artist’s illustrations will be used by the Living Field to explain how mixtures of crops and crops with grass were managed in the 1800s

    Illustrating crop-grass mixtures

    10 May 2020 gs
  2. Collection of crops and other useful plants in the Living Field garden, to mark the first tweet on @LField2020

    First tweet

    13 April 2020 gs

  3. Key pattern based on a Celtic design made of natural fibres by Ruth Black

    Key pattern in natural fibre

    22 December 2019 gs

  4. Beginning in April with buds and flowers of the perennials …. follow the seasons here.

    2019 in the living field garden

    15 April 2019 gs

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

    Fiberoptic 7

    16 October 2018 gs
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