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Hannah Jones Mapping Haberdasher's Awkward Space

On the 21st March 2010, members of the Haberdasher Estate in East London were invited to participate in a collective mapping session. The haberdasher residents were joined by a small group of designers who helped to facilitate and document an exploration of the estate's 'awkward

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Added by Hannah Jones on May 31, 2010 at 6:00pm — No Comments

Rachel Wingfield 2nd EUROPEAN SUSTAINABLE FOOD PLANNING CONFERENCE

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Added by Rachel Wingfield on May 18, 2010 at 1:06pm — No Comments

Rachel Wingfield Bioplastics manufactured in your kitchen..

MetaboliCity is as much about the metabolism of the 'stuff' we create as the food we consume. For a long time I have been fascinated by biopolymers and how we could create them ourselves - at home.

So I was really excited to meet Brian Degger last week, a scientist, artist and DIY enthusiast (and friend of

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Added by Rachel Wingfield on April 30, 2010 at 9:00pm — No Comments

Rachel Cockburn Sustainable Eating: Eat Right

If you are interested in attending the Goldsmiths Design 2010 private view, where my work will be on show, you would be very welcome - just email me so I can make sure you receive an invitation.

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Added by Rachel Cockburn on April 30, 2010 at 5:17pm — 2 Comments

Ilyanna Kerr Growth in the dome.

As the weather has warmed up hundreds of little seedlings have germinated and there has been faster growth seen in the more established salad crops. Plants seem to grow almost twice as fast under the cover of the dome.

I thought ventilation would be a huge problem as plants started to establish themselves as I still haven't installed a window in the ceiling but so far there is no sign of disease. Unfortunately the humid environment that the dome creates seems to have attracted large num… Continue

Added by Ilyanna Kerr on April 12, 2010 at 5:14pm — No Comments

Rachel Wingfield Design Approaches for the 21st Century City

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Added by Rachel Wingfield on April 12, 2010 at 3:17pm — No Comments

Rachel Wingfield Slime Mold


A stunning collection of photographs of Slime Mold:

http://englishrussia.com/index.php/2008/09/23/slime-molds/


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Added by Rachel Wingfield on April 12, 2010 at 3:07pm — No Comments

Ilyanna Kerr Geodesic Greenhouse/polytunnel

I recently built a 6m in diameter and 3m high geodesic greenhouse in the center of my allotment using standard sized treated wood, a few nuts and bolts and polythene sheeting.

I am currently designing an instruction manual for the dome and will post it up once it is completed.

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Added by Ilyanna Kerr on February 28, 2010 at 12:00am — 2 Comments

Rachel Wingfield Skills to Grow

Whilst researching on MetaboliCity we found ourselves questioning and rethinking our urban workforce and especially the new modes of work created from urban greening and farming. There are some great apprentice schemes and opportunities to setup social enterprises that take on council contracts to manage local green spaces.

There is a really good report on the CABE website about their Skills to Grow strategy that has identified apprenticeships as an important route into green space care… Continue

Added by Rachel Wingfield on February 26, 2010 at 3:30pm — No Comments

Rachel Wingfield City University

We are planning our first workshop with City University London tomorrow, who will be using some of the MetaboliCity methods and tools to start a growing site on campus in a disused courtyard sandwiched between buildings.


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Added by Rachel Wingfield on February 21, 2010 at 11:27pm — 1 Comment

Hannah Jones The Ministry of Food Exhibition

The Ministry of Food Exhibition will take place at the Imperial War Museum from February 12th 2010 until January 2011. The radio four Today programme have a short slide show that presents the 'Dig for Victory' campaign that took place at the time of the second world war.

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Added by Hannah Jones on February 12, 2010 at 12:06pm — No Comments

Rachel Wingfield Crop to Shop: Supermarket Secrets

Last night we watched a documentary where Jimmy Doherty (Britain's famous TV presenting pig farmer) explores the global logistics that bring fresh food from around the world to a shop near you, and uncovers the science that keeps food fresh for weeks. Great visuals to show food's global superhighways.. from small low-tech farms in Ghana to our supermarket shelves and huge water intensive pot… Continue

Added by Rachel Wingfield on February 4, 2010 at 5:00pm — 1 Comment

camalo Permaculture - Farms for the Future

A short film I just watched about a woman trying to determine the direction she should take the farm she will inherit from her father. Essentially, after being introduced to permaculture by other farmers who decided that this was for them the most effective (in terms of labor and land) practice, she ponders whether gardening, rather than farming is the most sensible way forward. http://www.viddler.com/explore/PermaScience/videos/4/ Continue

Added by camalo on February 3, 2010 at 12:14pm — No Comments

camalo Large scale Vertical Farming

Some fodder for debate on shifting farming to large scale indoor spaces in response to land depletion from traditional agriculture: http://www.verticalfarm.com Continue

Added by camalo on February 2, 2010 at 5:15pm — No Comments

camalo FutureFarmers

Very nice design studio based in San Francisco, related to some of our Berlin growers (Henrik Lebuhn and Megan Saperstein) who have kept an urban growing allotment for many years: http://www.futurefarmers.com/ Continue

Added by camalo on January 31, 2010 at 9:26pm — No Comments

camalo ACGA

The site for the American Community Gardening Association: http://www.communitygarden.org/ outlines some key benefits of community gardens, especially in urban locations: * Improves the quality of life for people in the garden * Provides a catalyst for neighborhood and community development * Stimulates Social Interaction * Encourages Self-Reliance * Beautifies Neighborhoods * Produces Nutritious Food * Reduces Family Food Budgets * Conserves Resour… Continue

Added by camalo on January 25, 2010 at 11:20pm — No Comments

camalo Who Will Grow Your Food?

Nina Fallenbaum, who writes a food column for Hyphen Magazine sent me the article "Who Will Grow Your Food? Part I: The Coming Demographic Crisis in Agriculture" by Sharon Astyk posted on scienceblogs.com: http://scienceblogs.com/casaubonsbook/2010/01/who_will_grow_your_food_part_i.php Continue

Added by camalo on January 24, 2010 at 12:03am — No Comments

camalo Urban Squat Farming

Last year KPFA radio station broadcasted a piece on an Urban Farm, revealing how common place the practice has been amongst chinese and vietnamese immigrant communities in Oakland, California. In a part of the city called Ghost Town, Novella Carpenter has for seven years squatted and farmed a plot of land. In her blog she reveals some lessons, techniques, etc to do with urban farming (both plant and animal). Some of it will be useful come spring when our Berlin Grow Lab shall spring forth :) He… Continue

Added by camalo on January 23, 2010 at 9:28pm — No Comments

camalo "Warming" Raw Foods and Winter

The following excerpt is from RAWSOME by Brigitte Mars. Won't Eating Raw Foods Make You Cold In The Winter? Many people steer away from raw foods in the winter simply because it feels much nicer to have a hot bowl of soup warming up their insides. It's true that newcomers to a raw foods diet may feel cold more easily. One reason for this is that raw foods are less dense in calories, and calories produce heat as food is metabolized by the body. After some time, however, eating raw foods will ca… Continue

Added by camalo on January 23, 2010 at 9:11pm — No Comments

camalo Vitamin B12 and Self-Grown Food

Reggie Bass, a raw foods chef based in California, regularly posts information pertaining to food and health. He began exploring the value of raw foods after years of struggling with obesity. He now teaches food courses open to the public to share many of his finding, including recipes and information derived from food and nutrition science. He also prepares the most unlikely raw food dishes and offers a weekly menu for those trying to incorporate raw food preparation and consumption into a 'nor… Continue

Added by camalo on January 23, 2010 at 9:00pm — No Comments

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