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: A food writer’s journey around Greece to learn the culinary secrets of the yiayias (Anastasia Miari and Marco Argüello/House & Garden). Other than the last photo, of dead octopuses (just no), I loved this piece with evocative pics of yiayias (Greek grandmothers) and their food.
photo essay: Visiting the High Line in winter (Jared Barnes/Meristem). Beautiful any time of year but in winter we can easily see, as in our own gardens, the structure of trees, shrubs, grasses, and plant stems that bring colour, texture, and depth in the winter, and we can identify empty spots on the ground where weeds are likely to grow. I like this thought: “Instead of following prescriptive formulas — trees here, shrubs there, perennials and annuals in neat arrangements — what if we started by asking what kind of plant community does this space most resemble, and how can I plant in harmony with that?
20-min video: David Lynch on Cooking Quinoa (scaynes/YouTube).
article with photos: Vernonia for the Mid-Atlantic Region (Mt. Cuba Center). “Ironweeds are hubs of ecological activity and can boost the garden’s capacity to provide pollen and nectar to late season pollinators, to host caterpillars and other insects, and to feed winter birds with their seeds.” These are the results of a trial over three years of 45 Vernonia species and cultivars, focusing on ornamental and ecological value for the mid-Atlantic, but most ironweed is hardy in USDA zones 4-9 so should grow well throughout almost all of New England, too.
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