25th September 2012 – Allotment Plot 326, it was over a week since Ella Montt’s last visit to Plot 326. There was evidence of a very slight frost; a dip in temperature that had tinged a few leaves of the Squash plants with the touch of autumnal death that signified their end. However, a few [...]
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September 30, 2012 by kate · Leave a Comment
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Social Tagging: Allotments • Joseph Beuys • oak • pile of bricks • Plot
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Social Tagging: Allotments • Joseph Beuys • oak • pile of bricks • Plot
October 29, 2011 by kate · Leave a Comment
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Social Tagging: Artichoke • Autumnal • Compost • Fluxist • Frog • Frost • Human Discontent • over wintering • Squash • Sweet Potato • Tree Products
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Social Tagging: Artichoke • Autumnal • Compost • Fluxist • Frog • Frost • Human Discontent • over wintering • Squash • Sweet Potato • Tree Products
7th October 2011 – At Allotment Plot at MERL, there was an overload of sound at the Plot. The sounds penetrated and reverberated across the garden. Magpies were conspiring in the trees, planes moving along flight paths, teenagers screaming and shouting involved in the action of sport in a field beyond the hedge, sirens wailing, [...]
May 10, 2011 by kate · Leave a Comment
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Social Tagging: Allotments • Captain Swing • Digging • Growing • Planting • Plot • Seedlings • Thorpe • William Morris
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Social Tagging: Allotments • Captain Swing • Digging • Growing • Planting • Plot • Seedlings • Thorpe • William Morris
18th April 2011 – In the studio the rooting Sweet Potato was observed sitting in its glass jam jar of water on the table in front of the window. The Sweet Potato was absorbing the sun light. A tiny dark reddish/ purple leafy sprout (slip) had emerged from the tuber. Ella Montt stared at the [...]
March 31, 2011 by kate · Leave a Comment
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Social Tagging: Allotments • Digging • Planting • Plot • Plot 326 • Thorpe Report
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Social Tagging: Allotments • Digging • Planting • Plot • Plot 326 • Thorpe Report
Allotment Plot 326 sits in the great field with many other allotment plots. It is part of a social system that gave humans a right to an allotment of land. Desire for an allotment plot can be a utopian dream. Reality of working an allotment or making the allotment succeed involves much hard effort. In [...]
October 25, 2010 by kate · Leave a Comment
Filed under: Allotments, Artwork, Biodiversity, Compost, Digging, Harvest, Planting, Plot
Social Tagging: Allotments • Art • Digging • Harvest • Plot
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On the morning of 21st October 2010, an overnight frost had killed the Bean and Squash plants at Allotment Plot at MERL, leaving the remaining Squash Green Hokkadio vulnerable to elemental forces. The Squash seemed to be intact and was harvested, it had not met its maximum growth capacity because it had grown to late [...]
October 17, 2010 by kate · Leave a Comment
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Social Tagging: Allotments • Art • Plant Life
Filed under: Allotments, Artwork, Digging
Social Tagging: Allotments • Art • Plant Life
On the 13th of October at Allotment Plot 326 Battle of the Rhizome (Part 1) was concluded (temporarily) by earth being repositioned, two rows of Spinach Giant Winter seed and 500g of Onion Sets Swift being planted to over winter. The Battle of the Rhizome will be on going for an unidentified period of time, [...]
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