At Pensford Field there is a hut (the studio) and behind the hut is a bank of earth with a lot of nettles on it. I am amazed to find that I am offered the opportunity to grow things on this bank. I am allotted, not an allottment but an aNottment. I went there yesterday with Graham from the Alpines in Kew Gardens, you could say he knows a few things about native plants. We had a look around and got together a list of plants growing on the patch. Of course it is mostly nettles, but also Alexanders, burdock, green alkanet, horsetails, Black HoarHound, a type of wild lettuce and a mustard, some pretty grasses and a wild barley, mugwort (allegedly useful in clairvoyancy), a buddleia and some buttercups. I may well have forgotten a couple of things too. We also have on the site a pile of breeze blocks, some rubble, a few black plastic tubes and a bird box. With this highly promising collection of assorted plants and objects I want to intervene as a concious and conscientious agent of ecologi...
Learning about plants with an edible ecosystem nature garden, plus wild food and foraging, and occasional forays into books, recipes, films and other related ephemera