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Clay seed balls – à la seed truffles

Author. Stone Soup — 04/ 10/ 2017

Food for Soil, Bugs, Plants, Humans.

The clay seed ball has been used for thousands of years as an effective tool and technique for the growing of agricultural crops and re-greening large areas of land. In recent times, they have been popularised through the Guerrilla Gardening movement. Seed balls are especially well known through Masanobu Fukuoka, a permaculture father figure who used them to naturally farm record breaking yields of rice on his organic farm.

Clay seed balls – à la seed truffles
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Author. Stone Soup — 14/ 09/ 2017

A dyed-in-the-wool maker and an artsy type by trade, Jess Hemmings has a magpie’s eye for lost things. “It’s so ridiculous,” she says, “but I always come home from places with all this stuff in my pockets.” Could be a bit of greenery, a feather, anything. When her flat ran out of teaspoons a year ago, her thoughts drifted to a pile of gnarled sea wood she’d brought back from the beach. She decided to carve out her own spoons. “And I just found the shapes really interesting,” she smiles, “So I got them cast.”

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Preserving the Proceeds of Summer

Author. Stone Soup — 28/ 02/ 2017

We’ve always had a tangy-tongued approach to food, constantly craving the power of sour that pickles and ferments can bring. It’s only recently on our own bacteria-driven journey that we’ve developed a new appreciation for what can be done with some salt, water, vinegar and a bunch of beautiful produce. Ingredients you thought you knew develop a whole new personality – our pickled watermelon rinds are a good example of this – but the best part is capturing the abundance of one season and celebrating those proceeds all year round.

Preserving the Proceeds of Summer