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Photo credit: Gustafson Guthrie Nichol In honor of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, let’s visit the recently opened National Museum of African American History and Culture, located on the grounds of the Washington Monument. The critically praised building is the work of Tanzania-born, London-based architect David Adjaye. I see from his firm’s website that he’s about to be…

via New African American Museum’s Landscape by Susan Harris — Garden Rant

Learn how to beat pesky pests, wave goodbye to the weeds and plant perfect plants with our step-by-step guides from the garden team at Winterbourne

via Monthly Masterclass: January — Digging for Dirt

Ladies and Gentlemen of the world – I give you that most democratic of instruments, that most trans-boundary of objects, that most diplomatic of materials – the Travelling Sketchbook of the Sisterhood! She has flown from the US and entered Europe filled with hand made works which can only be wrought by love, thoughtfulness and […]

via The sketchbook (br)enters Europe — Chas Spain

Portugal played a leading role in the trade with the Far East after Vasco da Gama discovered the sea way to India in 1498. One of the commodities brought from the orient by the caravels were the dried leaves of a plant called Caméllia sinensis. The Portuguese called these leaves and their infusion chá, after […]

via The Portuguese Tea Company — Salt of Portugal

Battle of Byland…

Graham Lee, Senior Archaeological Conservation Officer and Ed Dennison, Ed Dennison Archaeological Services Ltd Roulston Scar Iron Age Hillfort is a scheduled site in the south west corner of the National Park. Previous investigations by the Landscape Research Centre (in 2013 and 2015) on the north-eastern rampart of the hillfort located a substantial palisade trench […]

via Battle of Byland: considering the evidence — The official blog for the North York Moors National Park

Koalas fading away…

Not only are habitat losses causing greater short-term harm than climate change, so are invasive species. However, climate change is roaring up behind and will soon be causing greater harm than all other factors.

via Koalas are Fading Away — GarryRogers Nature Conservation

c2w1drbwgaasqt_-jpg-largeMore progress to report at the food growing project at the local high school in Reepham.

Teacher Matt Willer and his colleagues have started to broaden out the participation of students at the project, most recently extending this to a group focused on ‘Care of the Countryside’, who also carry out regular sessions at a local Field Study Centre. by all accounts this was a great success, with the students putting in a full shift to improve the recently dug soakaway.

Another recent project has been to create a brick path using recycled bricks. It’s planned to fill in the gaps with some fine wood  chippings.

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Matt is also interested in the possibility of offering qualifications in association with a local college – and maybe also seeing the wider, unused site developed for more ‘full blown’ agriculture…all very relevant for this School set in the heart of rural Norfolk.

Oh, and a recent plea for surplus gardening equipment has resulted in a good number of additions to the project’s tool shed; I donated a wheelbarrow and selection of border and hand tools, which will also also give me a bit more space in my shed! Here’s just a few of the donations so far…

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Old School Gardener

 

A Hobitt’s Garden…

I suppose that given that we were not far from Middle Earth – or so the map indicated – I shouldn’t have been surprised to happen upon a garden that gave every indication of being created by a hobbit and a very industrious hobbit at that.Blurry back view of hobbit – they are very shy…

via A Hobbit’s Garden — The Enduring Gardener

As soon as we entered, we felt that there was something special about Gadanha, a small restaurant in downtown Estremoz. The back wall is decorated with a chocolate cake recipe hand written by Michele Marques, the Brazilian chef who runs the restaurant. The dining room is furnished with old chairs and tables that give the […]

via Extraordinary food in Estremoz — Salt of Portugal

Why organic?

I am a long term Organic Gardener and I often get asked why I bother, well here are 10 very good reasons why!1. It’s healthier for the soilYour soil will become healthier. A rich, healthy soil is the answer to almost everything! Artificial fertilisers damage the soil, weaken your plants and pollute the water supply.2.…

via Organic gardening — The Compost Bin

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