Posts Tagged ‘land’
Field Songs – Introduction
20 February 2013
To all fellow gardeners, farmers, singers and musicians! I’m on the hunt – or forage, if you will – for songs about plants, food, farming, labour and land. Do you have any suggestions? Last summer, some friends and I explored songs and sang as we worked in the fields of urban Vancouver, planting out and […]
2013 | field songs | Tags: agriculture, cultural growography, culture, food, labour, landComments (0)
Field Songs Suggestions Page
19 February 2013
Do you know a good song about plants, food, farming, labour and/or land? Share it here! For more information about the Field Songs project, and how else to get involved, see the Field Songs Introduction. Thanks!
2013 | field songs | Tags: agriculture, cultural growography, culture, food, labour, landComments (0)
plot
30 November 2010
plot There’s a fence and a track down one side, but no way up this weedy incline. As I cut one, the leaves seem to laugh, in just days there’s no trace of my path. A strange cocktail awaits me outside: “Why bother?” their eyes seem to cry, “We’ve whipped and subdued it elsewhere. Shiny […]
2010 | sleep, songs | Tags: allotments, Bristol, climate change, food, inequality, justice, land, oilComments (0)
packer’s field
30 November 2010
packer’s field A factory bequeathed it, in trust to those who need it. Go back further still, it’s just a hill, unfenced like all the earth, until the lords found wood and nails, and crucified all prior claims. So, centuries on, that’s still what’s wrong. It’s got so local’s just a badge you wear, to […]