Wednesday, August 25, 2010






it's funny when you open your eyes to something, how easy it is to actually see it...everywhere. i've been practising this on my everyday walking routes and checking out what kind of feral/wild/for-the-taking edible food there is around my local area. nasturtiums are by far the easiest edible to forage. here, in a Dulwich Hill park, I find a huge patch of the edible plants (all parts are edible with the same spicy, peppery, awakening taste tingle). Notice the dandelion in there too- highly nutritious. I may have spied some wild lettuce in there as well. if only i could fill all around it with more, more, more!

i've started to become frustrated and anxious about all the unused space around the place. In my imagination they all become vegetable gardens. imagine a world where your lunch was just a wander around your natural street "supermaket"- choosing whats in season and available for picking. scrumping no more. sharing becomes natural and organic.

idealism fuels action.

2 comments:

  1. imagine being a sheep: everywhere you walk is a sea of edible green. if only we could grow wool. and perpetually avoid the abbatoir.

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  2. that would be delicious. it would be nice to be perpetually satisfied by the endlessness of green pasture... but then again as you say, how many sheep get to enjoy that endlessness?

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