Seedbombs: Going Wild with Flowers
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Hearing the word ‘seedbomb’ on the radio, Josie had a moment of recognition and before long, was doing workshops across the country in museums, festivals, schools and fairs. That seed…
Art & Culture
Colourful Histories
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Alain Guerra and Neraldo de la Paz are the creative duo that are Guerra de la Paz. The Cuban-born artists live and work in Miami, and have been producing work…
Minding My Peas and Cucumbers
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Kay Sexton’s idealistic vision of self-sufficiency is rudely shattered by immersion into the alien and hostile world of archaic rules and regulations, hosepipe standoffs, competitive vegetable-growing and biblical-scale pest invasions.…
The Secret Life of Stuff
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The effort put into turning materials into the objects around us, using nature’s abundance, is rarely appreciated. So how do we cast light on the shadow? Instead of feeling overwhelmed…
The Global Forest
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From the holly to the savannah, the incredible magnificence, value and purpose of trees is fully explored. Beresford-Kroeger draws the reader in to the enchanting forest, leading us chapter by…
Music Review 26
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The Kills, Blood Pressures (Domino)The Kills – aka Floridian singer Alison Mosshart (freshly returned from her excursion with Jack White, Dead Weather) and British multi-instrumentalist Jamie Hince – have been…
Rythm Kings
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After The Super Rail Band (Mali), Orchestra Baobab (Senegal), Mulatu Astatke (Ethiopia) and Bembeya Jazz (Guinea), among others, Orchestre Poly-Rythmo from Benin are the latest to receive a new lease…
Raw Emotion
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Undoubtedly it’s her voice that will strike the listener first: like Edith Piaf, whom she admires, Calvi’s voice is as tiny as her physique when she – reticently – speaks,…
Less Meat More Veg
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With photographs that pull you in, impressively designed and recipe- and idea-rich, Less meat more veg shows how to reverse that statistic with tasty, wholesome fare. Sections on game, poultry and red…
