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Saturday, November 28, 2020
You say Ladybug and I say Ladybird and they say...”God’s Little Cows”. Last week a colleague told me that in Polish Ladybirds are called God’s Little Cows. I “fact checked” this claim and it’s true. They’re also called this in Gaelic, Spanish and Russian 😳. But in English there’s a religious connotation too because ‘Lady’ refers to the Virgin Mary who wore a spotty (red?) coat apparently (not a Bible scholar - forgive any inaccuracies here). Side note/tangent: this Ladybird name research led me to discover that the German expression for ‘comfort food’ is ‘grief bacon’ (“kummerspeck” literally ‘grief pork fat’). The Ladybird for comfort food is Aphid #ladybird #ladybug #godslittlecows #typeofbeetle #notabug #coleoptera #coccinellidae #predatoryinsects #beneficialinsects #theyeataphids #carrotflower #comfortfood #griefbacon #kummerspeck #germanlanguage #zeitgeist #mood
Tuesday, November 24, 2020
In February this year I finished my report and plan for the Collingwood Children’s Farm. One of my recommendations was for the Farm to employ horticulturists and to convert the small Barn paddock into a market garden. Making recommendations was the easy part. For the last 9 months the Farm’s staff led by Sim @spokeandspade have wrangled this market garden idea with patience and focus as Covid forced the Farm to close to the public. Sim and the team killed off the original pretty ratty pasture, sowed winter oats as green manure, and are now putting in their first crops! Follow @collingwoodchildrensfarm and @spokeandspade for updates #collingwoodchildrensfarm #urbanagriculture #socialfarming #communityfarm #cityfarming #marketgarden #horticulturist #pandemicproject #superimpressed #greatteam #gettingstuckintoit #consultantslife #recommendations #itactuallyworked #handyhints #yarrariver #birrarung #alluvialsoil #wecanhavenicethings
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Sunday, November 8, 2020
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