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lambs quarters

Rose leaf Chaparral tea. 190 proof cane spirited sativa tincture. with Motherwort:: Black Label

picking peas. Art mama taught me early in life. 

Our cities grow by sheer chance, by accident...by the whim of the private developer and public agencies. A farm is sold and the land begins to sprout houses instead of potatoes. Forests are cut. Valleys are filled. Streams are turned into storm sewers. An expressway is hacked through the landscape. Then a clover leaf, then a regional shopping center, then office buildings, then high rise apartments. In this way, the bits and pieces of a city are splattered across the landscape. By this irrational process, non communities are born, formless places without order, beauty, or reason, with no visible respect for either people or the land-- quote by Architectural Planner James Rouse.

all preceding posts for this blog were dedicated to CycleX - CROP Rotation 2012 collaboration with textile, installation and performance artist rachel schaffran and media maker serena muthi reed. Now DAT Green Lab (2017 March 18) curated by muthi reed. Things change. It’s all Love*

today we had a run in with one of the most deadly plants: poison hemlock. I was in the front of the house pulling up some garlic mustard which i just learned is not just another edible weed, but an invasive non-native species that effectively poisons the soil against all plants that are not itself. I noticed a tall white flowering plant that looked like it could be wild carrot (otherwise known as queen anne's lace), a wild vegetable and powerful herb, and being in a pulling mode i just went and pulled it out of the ground. It had a long carrot looking root, which I smelled, it didn't smell very good. Muthi told me from the other room to be careful, they remembered wild carrot looks similar to another poisonus plant. I immediately run for my laptop and google search it.stop playin! you were like fuuuck Mu s/he don't know shiiit! Muthi mentioned both wild carrot and hemlock but of course only being credited here with mentioning a nameless alternative to wild carrot @ which you did NOT run to your laptop. You sluggishly consented that you may need to chill with your rockish savage behavior of pulling up random plants. Sure enough poison hemlock and wild carrot are doplegangers.