by Debra | May 30, 2013 | edible plants / wild foods, Foodscape Schilderswijk, green infrastructure, the urban ag diet
In a moment of unprecedented interest, Chef Jaap of New Babylon’s Restaurant Piazza harvests ramps blossoms before they’ve even been planted in the roof garden! The Foodscape Schilderswijk team calls this sort of behaviour ‘healthy rooting’ and...
by Debra | May 4, 2013 | bio-diversity, DIY Mmmmuseum of Oven Typologies, Edible Ecological Framework, edible plants / wild foods, Foodscape Wildeman @en, foodscapes, green infrastructure, permaculture, public space, the urban ag diet, urban agriculture, URBANIAHOEVE projects
Neighbours sow field of nectar-rich flowers at Hotel Buiten. Urbaniahoeve and Hotel Buiten are collaborating on growing an elder flower orchard and plucking garden at the former children’s wading pools next to the Sloterplas. An innovative hotel concept on the...
by Debra | Apr 9, 2013 | Edible Ecological Framework, foodscapes, green infrastructure, public space, urban agriculture
Together with neighbours, schools and local initiatives, URBANIAHOEVE is producing an edible ecological framework in the public space of the city. At the last lecture in a series about urban agriculture, artist Debra Solomon talks about the URBANIAHOEVE Social Design...
by Debra | Mar 19, 2013 | bio-diversity, DIY Mmmmuseum of Oven Typologies, Edible Ecological Framework, edible plants / wild foods, Foodscape Wildeman @en, foodscapes, green infrastructure, permaculture, social cohesion, urban agriculture, URBANIAHOEVE projects
March 14, 2013 – Lucas Community, Notweg 32, Amsterdam. Last Thursday URBANIAHOEVE, members of the Lucas Community and neighbours broke ground on Foodscape Wildeman garden and edible landscape at the former Lucas School. The group, who were involved in the...
by Debra | Mar 13, 2013 | bio-diversity, DemoGarden-Amsterdam Noord, Edible Ecological Framework, green infrastructure, permaculture, urban agriculture, URBANIAHOEVE projects
Despite the freezing temperatures, the DemoGarden compost worms are happily wiggling in their new, spacious wormery, designed by artist Rutger Emmelkamp and presented at last week’s vermiculture workshop led by Librani Selby. The fertile collaboration between...
by Debra | Mar 4, 2013 | bio-diversity, DemoGarden-Amsterdam Noord, Edible Ecological Framework, green infrastructure, permaculture, urban agriculture, URBANIAHOEVE projects
In 1881 Charles Darwin published what would be his final work, a treatise on the formation of topsoil called, The Formation of Vegetable Mould through the Action of Worms with Observations on their Habits. A review of this seminal work in the 1882 Punch Almanac was...
