A different way of doing this

Everytime I spend time in emergency wards I am filled with great revelations that this is not a sustainable positive love filled approach to wellbeing and true livliness and we really need a new and integrated way of doing this. More thoughts to come.

There's a whole world of positive momentum out there

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Running

Perhaps the genius of ultra running is its supreme lack of utility. It makes no sense in a world of space ships and supercomputers to run vast distances on foot. There is no money in it and no fame, frequently not even the approval of peers. But as poets, apostles and philosophers have insisted from the dawn of time, there is more to life than logic and common sense. The ultra runners know this instinctively. And they know something else that is lost on the sedentary. They understand, perhaps better than anyone, that the doors to the spirit will swing open with physical effort. In running such long and taxing distances they answer a call from the deepest realms of their being -- a call that asks who they are.
-- David Blaikie, Ultramarathon Canada from here

Thought

This blog isnt a straightforward nutritional guide, or how to prepare easy recipes, it is not intended to be a place of personal dogma; it is a
process based research into life and art practise through the medium of food, grounded in my experience, of engaging with food, plants, and people; growing, preparing and feeding. It is open ended, multi-faceted and experiential. I 'think' by doing, and quite often 'I do' by reading or simply being. I research through direct experience. I am in awe of plants. The revolution is made out of plants and healthy cells pulsating with light.

Connection

Food as connection to self and to community
food as connection to environment, land, weather, season, climate, geology
food as ritual
food as politics
food as concept
food as religion
food as design
food as engineering
food as nutrition
food as revolution

Victory gardens 2007+

In 1943, 20 million gardens were producing 8 million tons of food.
Victory Gardens, also called "war gardens" or "food gardens for defense", were gardens planted both at private residences and on public land during World War I and World War II to reduce the pressure on the public food supply brought on by the war effort. In addition to indirectly aiding the war effort these gardens were also considered a civil "morale booster" — in that gardeners could feel empowered by their contribution of labor and rewarded by the produce grown. These gardens produced up to 41 percent of all the vegetable produce that was consumed in the nation.
-City Bountiful: A Century of Community Gardening in America, Laura Lawson

Drawing from the rich history of World War II Victory Gardens, Victory Gardens 2007+ puts a new spin on the meaning of “victory”. In this program, “victory” is:
- independence from corporate food systems
- community involvement
- getting people closer to the natural environment.

read more about Victory Gardens project in San Fransisco

I photographed these images from the Victory Gardens 2007+ book when i
was at MCA last week. This began the re-ignition of the food cart dream

"Permaculture is revolution

disguised as organic gardening."
- Graham Burnett

'Permaculture – A Beginners Guide'

Green Smoothie love

The green smoothie phenomena is quickly becoming a central part of my life. Everyday I pick greens and blend them with water and whatever fruit I can find. Everyday I invent a new recipe and find out you really can eat everything that grows (almost haha).














Here are a couple of recent smoothies I really enjoyed
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24.08.10
parsley and a few leaves of cos lettuce (from garden)
a grapefruit and 2 bananas
1 cup of water
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23.08.10
fresh parsley
1 and 1/2 bananas
tablespoon each of carob powder and dessicated coconut
1 cup of water
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22.08.10
(made with Chita)
milk thistle and nettles
1 orange, stick of celery and 2 bananas
3 cups of water
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17.08.10
lots of spinach stalk and all
a small apple and half a banana,
spoon of tahini and a spoon of hemp protein
1 and 1/2 cups of water
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11.08.10
lots of chickweed!
Spoon each of hemp, cacao and carob powders
4 squishy Turkish dates
1 banana and 1/4 of an avocado
1 and 1/2 cups of water
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another version of chickweed chocolate!
04.08.10
chickweed!!
Half an avocado
1 banana and 3 strawberries
raw cacao and maca powder to taste
a tiny bit of agave of you need to balance sweetness
1 and 1/2 cups of water
(by all the exclamations you can probably see I am fond of chickweed-chocolate smoothies...)
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01.08.10
buk choy leaves
2 bananas and 3 strawberries (these were high flavoured organic strawberries so don't need many, also I don't generally use much expensive fruits in my smoothies, since the high proliferation of bananas, I buy ripe ones from the markets and keep in freezer, I do the same with avocadoes sometimes-removing skin, quartering and freezing-rationing)
spoon of maca
1 and 1/2 cups of water