Happy Indian New Year to all. Should I say Asian since several SE Asian nations – Bangladesh, Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand all celebrate new year around the same time/date as us?
Author: Nina
Audible Weed Walk – ep.36 “Weedy plants, linking to our tradition – Go Bitters”
This week too we will continue with the equinox/full-moon traditions of dol-yatra/holi, nauroz, easter, passover and all that good stuff.
As we evolved in our society, even after farming evolved – we still depended food that came from the wild.
Close to the vernal equinox in the first full moon we celebrate Holi or Dol.
Audible Weed Walk – ep.33 “Let’s set our controls to nature”
Inspired by the Pink Floyd song - lyric Set the controls for the heart of the sun, this week's podcast's theme is to set our controls to Nature.
Audible Weed Walk – ep.32 “Let’s fire up our tradition of inquiry – Be a weeder!”
Our true tradition – is not the tradition of memories and practices of forgotten reasons, but it is a tradition of inquiry - that we need to continue to refine.
Audible Weed Walk – ep.31 “Recognizing, appreciating and eating is unshackling weedy food”
I thought wild green had to address the stigma of it being “poor person’s food”. I think I have to delve deeper for the true issue.
Audible Weed Walk – ep.30 “Where the journey truly started”
If I call the book a launching pad, the weed-walk was definitely the flight (or bus or walk whatever one can imagine) and the experience the journey...
Audible Weed Walk – ep.29 “Chance encounters – walk to plate”
As a weeder – something you get to know a species that is new to you. Then you see a plant that you already knew, may have even known about some of its medicinal or edible uses and yet - you discover something new in them.
Wild, uncultivated, and often unwanted plants- can be insectary plants to attract and support beneficial insects. How do they do that? Let's find out.