Links that may or may not be related to gardens, food, travel, nature, or heterotopias and liminal spaces but probably are. Sources in parentheses.
photo essay: Winter Salad (Dig Delve). Growing and eating winter greens including chicories, plantains, fool’s Watercress, common sorrel, purslane, lettuces, salad burnet, dandelion, mustards, mizuna, erbette (perpetual spinach), rocket (arugula), chard, mache, and pak choi. (Remember that their garden is located in the hills north of Bath, Somerset in the west of England, so their climate is more temperate than in New England.)
essay with photos: Meet the Epaulette Shark (Amie Pearce/Beached). They are beautiful in person — we’ve watched them in the touch-tank at New England Aquarium, which is mentioned in this essay in reference to the rare occurrence of parthenogenesis (asexual reproduction).
photos: Photos of the 1893 Chicago World’s Fair (Alan Taylor/The Atlantic). One-hundred-and-thirty-one years ago, “Architect Daniel Burnham and landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted worked together with many others to reshape a swampy park along Lake Michigan into a 686-acre Venetian-inspired fairground, … [where] visitors were introduced to many new (and relatively new) concepts, inventions, and products, from Cracker Jack and Juicy Fruit gum to large-scale electric lighting and the Ferris wheel.” Stunning, surreal photos.
article: Mark Diacono on how he was inspired to grow his own vegetables (Mark Diacono/Country LIfe). Vegetables including salsify (Tragopogon porrifolius) and scorzonera, also known as Spanish salsify (Scorzonera hispanica). He lives in Devon, England.
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