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Blue Lily

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

Author gsPosted on 16 October 201823 October 2018Format ImageCategories plant, water lilyTags ArtScience Museum, Singapore, water lily

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One of Vida Fakin's paintings of hayricks in the Slovenia landscape. To see more - Vida's page under 'People'.

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The Living Field project connects through Twitter.  No new plantings in 2020/21/22 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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  • Ad Gefrin | Yeavering 7 November 2023
  • Mapping the future: land use | climate | food 10 August 2023
  • Bere barley participatory network 21 July 2023
  • All among the barley 26 June 2023
  • Rice grain giant sculpture 30 May 2023
  • Ancient grains – from Africa 15 May 2023
  • BSBI Plant Atlas 2020 15 March 2023
  • Bread Festival – St Monan’s 28 February 2023
  • Information sources at SEDA Land 30 December 2022
  • Copernicus remote sensing – 2022 drought 28 December 2022
  • How dry was season 2022 27 November 2022
  • Inverness Botanics 29 October 2022
  • Ecological restoration? Get involved with SER Europe 2 October 2022
  • Pictish Beasts 29 September 2022

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One of the paintings of Hay-racks in the landscape by Slovenian artist Fida Fakin. Her family have provided examples of her work and some notes on her life at Vida's page.

Latest posts

  • Fit Farming in the 1770s
  • Farming Fit for the Future
  • The Living Pavilion
  • Humus miraculum | Nature under screen
  • VESS – Visual evaluation of soil
  • Edible Fungi Club
  • Ad Gefrin | Yeavering
  • Mapping the future: land use | climate | food
  • Bere barley participatory network
  • All among the barley
  • Rice grain giant sculpture
  • Ancient grains – from Africa
  • BSBI Plant Atlas 2020
  • Bread Festival – St Monan’s
  • Information sources at SEDA Land
  • Copernicus remote sensing – 2022 drought
  • How dry was season 2022
  • Inverness Botanics
  • Ecological restoration? Get involved with SER Europe
  • Pictish Beasts
  • James Hutton’s Unconformity
  • Ancient grains | miss you
  • 2022 summer drought
  • Medicinal forage | Kinloss Abbey
  • LEAF Open Farm Sundays again
Reno the Fox, brought to life by Grissel, herself immolated as a witch in Dundee: painting by Marion Demade, a student visiting Dundee from France. More on Reno.

..... now they're digging ancient summers, bringing in the sheaves, bringing in the fiery sheaves

From Man of Constant Sorrow by John Tams

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    • Habitats
      • Meadow
      • Cornfield
      • Pond and ditch
      • Hedge and tree
    • Living exhibits
      • Cereals
      • Legumes
      • Medicinals
      • Dye plants
      • Vegetables
  • The Year
    • Energy and light: no life without the sun
    • XQ1 February
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    • Summer solstice
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    • Autumn equinox
    • XQ4 November
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      • Anniversary designs and sketches
        • The beauty of roots
    • Vida Fakin
      • Memories of Mojca
    • Tina Scopa
    • Reno by Grissel
    • Scaperiae
    • dundeeastro
  • 5000 – Plants
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    • Dyes
      • Dye plants in the croplands
      • Sources references links contacts – dyes
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      • The Brassica complex
      • Potato
    • Weeds
    • Legumes
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