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Death of an urban garden

or, some remarks on Byhaven 2200, Permaculture and Volunteer Projects In May 2018, Copenhagen Municipality bulldozered the urban garden called Byhaven 2200 which had existed for 6 years. Byhaven 2200 had not been able find a group of committed people who would form a stable core team, handle the contract, and carry on the project.…

Orkney dumplings and more: the edible seaweeds of Stromness

In July 2018 we spent 2 weeks in Stromness, Orkney, in a house close to the southern tip of the mainland, known as Ness Point. We used the opportunity to see what species of seaweeds we would be able to find on the coast there. Good advice by Mark Williams helped us choose the…

ID problems for danish nationalism

Yes, problems for, not with danish nationalism. There is an interesting new book* which looks at the way the Viking myth was constructed in the 19th century, at a time when danish nationalists urgently needed some kind of alleged history to bolster up danish self esteem – thus, what originally was little more than a…

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