HeyJaredCommons Feast & Other Ramblings
Seasonal reflections, wild food experiments, and provocations and summaries from Commons Feast, a monthly online gathering exploring making how we make and remake the commons and live with abundance and scarcity from artist and researcher, Amanda Couch
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Seeds Don’t Know Borders (opens the original)
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Thank you to everyone who joined this month’s Commons Feast for a lively conversation where we discussed what we had been foraging, growing, eating, and preserving, and what kinds of edges we are living with at the moment.<img alt="" class="sizing-normal" hei
Living on edges (opens the original)
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On the first part of my holiday this summer, whilst staying on the Normandy coast, I started thinking about life on edges: the liminal spaces of salt marshes, estuaries, mudflats, shorelines, tidal zones, dunes, and cliff-top moors, where coastal plants, maritime pine forests, and seaweeds reside.We stayed in a campsite near a marais or sea marsh just outside Étaples-sur-Mer, close to the Baie de Canche nature reserve. We wandered through the salt marsh, foraging a little and eating spear-leaved
A Summer with Seaweed (opens the original)
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Sunday 16 August: Did a cycle with a detour to a beach for lunch. The tide seemed in, so we could easily swim, and then in the space of less than an hour, very rapidly, it went out a long way. People were once again pêche à pied, walking out what seemed miles in the shallows. It struck me how much of the knowledge of what and how to fish and forage at the shore we have lost in the UK. Foraging is usually about seasons, which, of course, are being messed with due to global warming, but shore fish
A Summer with Seaweed (opens the original)
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Wednesday 12 August PM: It is a very hot day today. Low tide and not much thongweed cast up on the beach, and what was there was very dry and unappealing as it had probably been there for a few hours. Revisited the hairy thongweed rock. The algae are totally desiccated. Thin and brittle. Looks like old lady/hag hair.<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!dVUV!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaw
A Summer with Seaweed (opens the original)
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I wrote these field notes to accompany the spontaneous actions I undertook with seaweed, particularly sea spaghetti or thongweed, Himanthalia elongata, that I encountered in such abundance on the beach, rocks, and in the sea whilst on holiday recently on the rugged coast of Brittany near Cap Fréhel.The works I made, actions/performances, drawings in the sand, videos, photographs etc. feel like a continuation of the work I made last summer whilst on holiday, performances of floating in rivers and
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