An intriguing project by artist Daniel Staincliffe looking at the presence of wild boar in the UK. The work includes a residency in the Forest of Dean and is well worth checking out
Another sometimes Avant-Gardener, Jessica Green, blogs about her thoughts, ideas and gardening
Spiralseed is an independent enterprise founded in 2001 to promote permaculture education and earthright living. We produce publications and run regular courses and workshops, including weekend introductory events as well as an accredited full 72 hour Permaculture Design Certificate Course. We also offer permaculture design consultancy services.
public works projects address the question how the public realm is shaped by its various users and how existing dynamics can inform further proposals. Our focus is the production and extension of a particular public space through participation and collaborations. Projects span across different scales and address the relation between the informal and formal aspects of a site.
A fascinating sound map that brings together an array of maps covering everything from day to day sound to wildlife sounds of the city.
Can Loughborough's Culture take over the world
Wild Zones are places where adults, children and adolescents can co-create a new form of public space that is dedicated to unstructured free play in nature. Wild Zones differ from parks and nature reserves because they offer opportunities to interact with the environment rather than leaving it untouched.
adventures on a north London rooftop. An excellent blog following the aerial gardening adventures of journalist and urban gardener, Helen Babbs
Really Wild Flowers sells seeds and plant plugs and many native wild flowers. Everything you'll need to plan and create a beautiful wild flower garden or meadow.
You can recycle your old inkjet cartridges and help Avant-Gardening at the same time by popping your old cartridges (not Epson though) into a freepost envelope and dropping it in a post box
To register for the scheme and get the freepost envelopes visit Recycle 4 Charity
Abbey Gardens is a public space
designed by Karen Guthrie & Nina Pope of Somewhere.
Led by the Friends of Abbey
Gardens, what was a
neglected wasteland has been transformed into a unique open-access
Harvest Garden where anyone can grow and harvest flowers, fruit and
vegetables. The Gardens surround part of the ruin of a protected
12th century Cistercian Abbey where monks ran a large and
productive garden, and the site also displays more recent 19th
century archaeological remains.
Abbey Gardens in E15 has been transformed by the community working with artists; Nina Pope and Karen Guthrie through their project What Will the Harvest Be?
London Food Link runs a network of organisations and individuals who care about sustainable food. Their members are as diverse as farmers and food writers, caterers and community food projects. <\p>
London Wildlife Trust is the only charity dedicated solely to protecting the capital's wildlife and wild spaces. We manage over fifty London-wide reserves and campaign to save important wildlife habitats, engaging London's diverse communities through access to our nature reserves, volunteering programmes and education work.
City gardeners are encouraged to join together and start to Garden For a Living London. Make a pledge to do one thing to create a wildlife and climate friendly garden and help to transform the capital's three million gardens into a network of nature reserves.
The Stanley Picker Gallery at the Faculty of Art, Design & Architecture, Kingston University, works with artists, designers, students and academics to facilitate and provide access to a broad programme of exhibitions, collaborative projects, events and education initiatives.
Check out your nearest farmers market for the freshest foods - all grown in the south-east.
Exciting work by artist and designer exploring the dynamics between art, design and biology
Invisible Dust explores our responses to air pollution, health and climate change through joint art and science ventures
Studio Voltaire is the first and only artist-led gallery and studio complex in South-West London. Established in 1994, the organisation has developed a reputation for supporting artists at a pivotal stage in their careers through an ambitious public programme of exhibitions, commissions, live events and offsite projects
A blog archiving some of the events and projects curated as part of the Hayward's outreach programme 2003 - 2007. Avant-Gardeners Paul and Polly ran this programme of activities to engage the community with the Hayward's exhibitions and develop new audiences
public works is an art/architecture colletive consisting of architects Sandra Denicke-Polcher, Torange Khonsari, Andreas Lang and artist Kathrin Bohm, who have been collaborating in different constellations since 1998.
All public works projects address the question how users of public space are engaging with their environment and how design and programmatic strategies can support and facilitate physical, economical and social infrastructures in the public realm. public works' art and architecture collaboration is using the methodology of art led processes to explore how existing social dynamics can inform spatial, architectural and urban proposals.
An exhibition of 26 works created by trendsetting Nordic and international contemporary artists working in the intersection between art, culture and climate change</p>
A very useful guide to the best seasonal foods. Get the freshest food and cut down on your air miles with this useful guide
Greenwich based public and collaborative arts
Stream produces public and collaborative art. They commission artists to create high quality projects which are location specific and respond to the characteristics of a place or priorities of an area
The Urban Food Growing Network
Food Up Front supports people to grow food in their unused outdoor space. Whether it's front gardens, balconies, windowsills or back gardens all our members are given the opportunity to grow and share healthy, natural food. This helps to reduce food miles and dependency on supermarkets, whilst increasing self-reliance and community empowerment.
Fruit City is a growing map and network of all the fruit trees in public spaces in London. Logged and mapped by the Fruit City team and you.
Yes we live in a sometimes harsh urban sprawl, but nature is all around us. Much of the fruit we buy in the city is from far flung places like Spain, Brazil and Chile, but literally tons of fruit grows in our own fair city.