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Fødevarefællesskab

By On 5 September, 2011 · Leave a Comment · In Growing, Neighborhood

Fødevarefællesskab literally translates into “Food Community.” It is, in fact, a food co-op. Basically, a buying club style co-op. Every week members can pick up a huge bag of produce fresh from Danish farms. We joined the Fødevarefællesskab at the Nørrebro location. Joining means that you pay 100DKK/week and volunteer 3 hours per […]

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Calm the traffic

By On 3 September, 2011 · Leave a Comment · In Design, Growing, Neighborhood

What is a better way to calm down traffic on a busy street? Cities use speed bumps or concrete stanchions. If neighbors take traffic into their own hands, they are likely to get more creative.

For example, Portland, Oregon’s City Repair, is famous for their colorfully painted traffic calming […]

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Pepperz

By On 28 August, 2011 · Leave a Comment · In Growing, Homesteading

The first time we visited Dyrk Nørrebro, the local urban garden on the roof of a school, one of the gardeners gave us a pepper plant. The little plant was wilty and all of the peppers were green. It had been growing since April with not a single ripe pepper. This […]

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Nettles from the school garden

By On 24 August, 2011 · 1 Comment · In Growing, Kitchen, Neighborhood

The curmudgeonly stinging nettle is a secret softy. Despite its prickly exterior, which if grabbed too quickly will leave red welts on your hands, it is actually full of super healthy vitamins and minerals. Vitamins A and C, potassium, iron and calcium are all smooshed into the mildly spiky plant. We recently used […]

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Haven, an art garden event

By On 22 August, 2011 · Leave a Comment · In Arts and culture, Design, Growing, Neighborhood

HAVEN is an exhibition in a garden. It was curated by the gardener.

Friday night we stopped by the HAVEN opening at B-huset, an artist run building that houses artists’ studios and events. B-huset is an old school building and the studios are in the old classrooms. A community […]

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Every building in the hood needs one of these…

By On 16 August, 2011 · Leave a Comment · In Design, Growing, Neighborhood

We went back to our blackberry spot in the neighborhood today to harvest some berries, to freeze for the winter, and to get another blackberry bush to replace the one in our apartment that died. On our walk, we encountered a couple of modest neighborhood sustainability projects – a rain water cistern and an odd […]

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Dyrk! Growing in Nørrebro

By On 14 August, 2011 · Leave a Comment · In Growing, Neighborhood

Dyrk means ‘to cultivate’ or ‘cultivation’ in Danish. If you are gardening or growing plants, you would use the word dyrk in one conjugation or another. When I hear the word dyrk, I think about getting dirt under my fingernails, tomato plants, and worm bins. This is not too far away from the […]

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Blackberry Foraging

By On 7 August, 2011 · Leave a Comment · In Growing, Neighborhood

There is an abandoned lot near out house that is mostly used by graffiti writers and people looking for a quiet place to drink. We often stop on evening walks with Chai, because the field is also home to several wild blackberry bushes. It’s blackberry season in Copenhagen right now.

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Book Review-The Book of Bamboo

By On 6 August, 2011 · Leave a Comment · In Book reviews, Growing

A Mythological Quarter Book Review.

Published in 1984 by Sierra Club Books, The Book of Bamboo is a brief history of the plant and a catalog of its uses, which are many. David Farrelly, the author,  writes about ‘the wood of the poor,’ in a poetic fashion designed to make people […]

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Passive herb watering

By On 1 August, 2011 · 4 Comments · In Growing, Homesteading

Indoor plants require attention. You are the weather system. Sadly, I often forget to water the plants I am trying to grow indoors. I have created many an artificial drought from inattention. I get busy with my daily life and soon I have a sad, little wilted plant that is past the point of saving.

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