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Environment on the Move | Art, Architecture, and our Perceptions | Page 2
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Environment on the Move. Art, Architecture, and our Perceptions. Newer posts →. What’s Wrong With Plastic Trees? May 16, 2011. Recently there have been a number of architectural and landscape competitions and movements devoted to solving the problem sustaining trees within the urban environment, including Boston Treepod 2011. New Urban Tree Competition. They provide shelter from sun and precipitation, and a filter for wind. Deciduous trees produce leaves in the fall that serve to insulate the ground ...
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What’s Wrong With Plastic Trees? | Environment on the Move
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Environment on the Move. Art, Architecture, and our Perceptions. Marketing Architecture: What Sells and What Is It Really Worth? Designing With Disability →. What’s Wrong With Plastic Trees? May 16, 2011. Recently there have been a number of architectural and landscape competitions and movements devoted to solving the problem sustaining trees within the urban environment, including Boston Treepod 2011. New Urban Tree Competition. They provide shelter from sun and precipitation, and a filter for wind....
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History at the Table: Dairy dilemmas: Milk and cheese as "wicked problems"
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History at the Table. Friday, December 13, 2013. Dairy dilemmas: Milk and cheese as "wicked problems". Dairy cows at Appleton Farms in eastern Massachusetts. Yet it's a component of the food system whose history is particularly murky and ill-understood. What got me thinking about this was an article by Genevieve Rajewski. In the new issue of the Trustees of Reservations. And in its on-site retail store. This is where I always feel ambivalent about my critiques of the food movement. Appleton Farms is ...
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History at the Table: December 2013
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History at the Table. Friday, December 13, 2013. Dairy dilemmas: Milk and cheese as "wicked problems". Dairy cows at Appleton Farms in eastern Massachusetts. Yet its a component of the food system whose history is particularly murky and ill-understood. Posted by CATHY STANTON. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). A blog about food, farming, and historic sites. There was an error in this gadget. Dairy dilemmas: Milk and cheese as wicked proble. Permaculture Design Offers a Solution. Life on a Tuscan Farm.
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History at the Table: November 2012
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History at the Table. Sunday, November 18, 2012. Connecting to farm history (and why Martin Van Buren is cooler than you think). Martin Van Buren c.1855 ( Mathew Brady. Lindenwald, Van Buren's post-Presidential home. I remember asking, at our initial project meeting, how close I had to stay in my research to Van Buren himself, and being told, "Everything has to connect to. Van Buren. He's the reason this park exists.". Artist's rendering of Van Buren's farm c. 1850. Aspect of the past- in this case, ongo...
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History at the Table: April 2013
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History at the Table. Monday, April 15, 2013. Kate Christen: Kinetic history at play (and at work, of course…) in the fields of local food movements. Slavic Village Learning Farm, one of Cleveland Botanical Gardens Green Corps sites. The local food movement topic- all the topics our prior posts have highlighted (history, policy, community ramifications, etc.)- constitute a strong personal research interest of mine, and even more (especially since my research time is strictly limited! Sunday, April 7, 2013.
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History at the Table: December 2012
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History at the Table. Saturday, December 29, 2012. Merging farm histories with farm and public history practice. In recent posts, I've been teasing out some of the useful aspects of the kind of detailed ethnohistorical knowledge about past and present farming practices that went into my Ethnographic Landscape Study of farmers and farming in Columbia County, New York, in an attempt to address the fundamental "So what? Question that lurks behind any historical inquiry. However, "So what? Some of these rais...
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History at the Table: Growing a historic site: The Oliver H. Kelley Farm
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History at the Table. Tuesday, September 30, 2014. Growing a historic site: The Oliver H. Kelley Farm. Farm fields at the Oliver H. Kelley Farm in Elk River, Minnesota. Jill Lepore has spoken about what she terms " cuspiness. Michelle Moon and I were once again struck by this at a workshop we led at the American Association for State and Local History conference. Two-horse-power threshing machine at the Kelley Farm. Twenty years later, MHS launched a living history program representing the kind of "progr...
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Harvesting and Seed Saving | Gastronomes Garden
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Digging deep into urban agriculture. Thank You →. Harvesting and Seed Saving. June 27, 2011. So you have been working hard in your garden weeding and fending off the pests and it’s now time to enjoy the fruits of your labour. Here are a few tips for harvesting your bounty and saving your seeds. The biggest question here is: “How do I know when to harvest? Put together by the University of Indiana Extension. Cornell University also has a handy downloadable guide. The Urban Organic Gardner shows you how.
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Events | Boston Permaculture
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Sharing the Gifts of Permaculture with Boston. Canada Goose Constable Parka. Saturday, January 28, 2012. 8211; Indoor Gardening Workshop. 2:00pm – 4:00pm. 45 Mount Auburn St. Winter is a great time to start gardening! Explore a broad variety of indoor gardening methods including:. DIY Hydroponics using recycled materials. Indoor planting experiments for mad scientists and kids of all ages. Hands on demonstrations, samples and hand-outs provided. 25 at the door. Regional Events that may be of interest.
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