Grafting the commons (cont.)... The antibacterial property of honey makes it a perfect skin cure for a graft. In this image a hawthorn roots...

Grafting pear and apple scions onto wild hawthorn.

Last year I wrote an article about grafting various fruits onto wild hawthorns and apples. I was keen to trial various fruits without doing...

I'm participating in a poetry event in NSW today from the low carbon comforts of my central Victorian home, courtesy of Skype. Of cours...

Deborah Bird Rose (2011): There are two big contexts of death. The first is the fact that death resides in life... Death, as a corollary to...

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I have put together a panel for a forthcoming poetry symposium to be held at Trades Hall in Melbourne. Here are the details, followed by a f...

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We have just completed a week of work experience thanks to Liam Scott, a student from the local high school. Liam undertook to hang with us ...

A video poem written in response to a long shoeless walk, thinking further about technics and technical mediations, mediations such as shoes...

A find of wood blewits (Lepista nuda) yesterday on a walk was last night cooked up with garlic and parsley as a protein bomb, and shared wit...

Today I walked through a graveyard and noticed the grass around the tombstones had been recently herbicided. It caused me to make the observ...

Critical Mass hard liners brave the early winter and take over the street on sun down, last Friday in May. Local singer Anthony Petrucci, fr...

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Just as I was finishing a slow text treatment of a Bernard Stiegler transcript (below), my friend Ian sent through a link to an article th...

We have just made Words and Things , and my A Free-dragging Manifesto from How to do Words with Things (with Peter O'Mara) available f...

Town. City.

I was in Sydney earlier this month, so I checked in on the Food Forest and did a little work there with some local residents. When I got bac...

Pic. Adam Trafford A number of us turned out to protest the sale of a community park in Daylesford last week. Read more at the Daylesford Co...

From How To Do Words With Things: A Free-dragging Manifesto (2008), this text first published as Lalgambook: the Djadjawurrung and Coca-Cola...

Primitivism, as a purely intellectual thing, is indeed problematic terrain. However, once the primitive, by which I mean activity that trans...

Natural Bitterness is now available online as a slow text mesostic: Read the full work here .

Is the metabolic potential for a biophysical poetry – formed by the body (in an era of unfolding climate chaos and fossil energy descent) – ...

The human plates themselves are the seats of reciprocal and crossed interrelations among individuals and subgroups, their tools, their world...

Video-sketch: Drawing, singing, yelling, thinking a slow text poem into being with hyper text inputs and world-as-everything mania, this vid...

In preparation for my doctoral review... Click for bigger. The unavoidable fact of everything is a line from my friend Ian Robertson – grap...

I found this mushroom in a pine forest while taking Alison Pouliot 's fungi workshop last weekend. It was new to both of us, so Alison a...

I photographed this ridiculous wall sculpture at the Department of Primary Industries (DPI) in Melbourne a few weeks ago. I was there for a...