Category — Design

UK shops in York and Scarborough

All our cakes are suitable for vegetarians.

We can also make gluten free sponge and fruit cakes and dairy free cakes. There is usually a small extra charge for this.

Our fruit cakes do not contain nuts. They are made with butter and include cherries sultanas raisins and currants as well as sherry and rum.

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1000 Piece DeLuxe Jigsaw Puzzle

Excerpt:

“My early years were spent in Stoke on Trent, son of a ceramic pattern and transfer maker, and nephew of a famous aeroplane designer. So, it wasn’t surprising that I went to Art College, gaining my degree in Graphic Design and Illustration, discovering all the materials and methods that were available , investigating how they worked and how other illustrators used them.

My first commercial work involved producing military illustrations for units of the British Army stationed in Germany, soon followed by a long relationship with aviation art and illustration, including book covers and other work for Arms and Armour Press, Sidgwick and Jackson, and Orion Books.

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A painting of John Constable’s father’s kitchen garden in East Bergholt. See larger image here.

This was a very personal picture of John Constable’s back garden and was never sold during his lifetime.

By BBC – A History of the World

This view of Golding Constable’s kitchen garden painted by his son, John Constable, gives us a very personal insight into the internationally famous landscape artist’s own world. It was painted as a pair along with a view of the flower garden in 1815. This was a difficult year for the artist as his mother had just passed away and his father was now ill. The Suffolk home that he knew and loved was going to change. These paintings captured from the upper window of the parental home are his eye witness view of the landscape that has now become known as ‘Constable Country’.

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‘Grandpa’s Allotment’ – jigsaw puzzle, prints

Michael Herring – Born in Hertfordshire in 1944, Michael grew up in post war Watford where there were still fields, woods, farms and rivers where he loved to be, along with visits to his grandparents who lived on a farm in Essex.

Trained in the print industry and studied in life classes at Watford School of Art, he preferred wildlife and the countryside.

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Richmond Heights, Ohio, resident Martinez Garcias has completed four comic books in his “Brink City: Green in the Ghetto” series and will soon begin work on the fifth instalment in the series. Photo by Andy Attina.

Brink City will be a 12-part comic book series when it’s completed.

By Andy Attina
Cleveland.com
January 27, 2012,

Excerpt:

He wrote the first of four comic books, titled “Brink City: Green in the Ghetto.” Brink is used as a generic name for similar cities all around the country.

The comics have dealt mostly with urban farming, as Rid-All runs greenhouses in Cleveland. They were geared toward inner-city youths, but Garcias wanted them to be more versatile and appeal to kids in the suburbs, as well.

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Smart Gardener Fund Raising from Smart Gardener on Vimeo.

Using technology in smart ways, we make this easier, and much more personalized, based on your location, household size, tastes, and growing conditions.

Smart Gardener is built with proprietary IP and delivers consumers highly personalized tools and garden plans based on key inputs including geo-location and household size. Our service is also differentiated by a complex weather mapping algorithm, an extremely rich database of over 500 plants, as well as ecommerce to purchase the best organic seeds available online.

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“People can’t be expected to live more sustainable lives if they don’t even know the most basic terms and principles that define sustainability.”

For the past three years Douglas Gayeton and Laura Howard-Gayeton have crisscrossed the USA to learn this new language of sustainability from its foremost practitioners in food and farming. Alice Waters on edible schoolyards. Wes Jackson on reinventing wheat farming. Joel Salatin on embracing the value of saner farming practices. Vandana Shiva on the global imperative of protecting seeds. Paul Stamets on how mushrooms can save the world. Will Allen on Food Security. Temple Grandin on the humane slaughter of animals. Farmer John on the revolutionary idea of community-supported agriculture.

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2011 Collection

Excerpt:

The Victory Garden of Tomorrow is an original self-commissioned poster campaign designed to channel the bold energy of historical poster propaganda while building on the idea that there is power in small places. It is committed to civic innovation and social progress– better food, better gardens, better cities. It is artful advocacy for the modern homefront.

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Photo by: photo: Victoria Taylor and Katie Mathieu.

A look at the life-cycle of a rooftop vegetable farm for a Canadian restaurant—complete with hydroponic planters, a hoop house—including the harvest of beautiful vegetables.

By Victoria Taylor and Katie Mathieu
Garden Design
Jan 4, 2012

Excerpts:

In the spring of 2010, Parks & Rec, a rooftop vegetable garden, was established on the roof of downtown Toronto restaurant Parts & Labour. It was designed and operated as a for-profit roof farm by the two of us, landscape architect Victoria Taylor, OALA, and trained chef and permaculturalist Katie Mathieu.

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Productive Neighborhoods

By Magdalena Celinska, Intern
In collaboration with Jason Henry & Rachael Meyer
The Berger Partnership
Summer Internship 2011
Seattle, WA
(Must see report. Mike)

Introduction:

Currently there are 103 urban food production sites in Seattle. These include urban farms, P-Patches, community gardens, and school gardens. From the 103 sites, however, only 10 are functioning as Urban Farms. While P-Patches, community gardens, and school gardens are an important component of Seattle’s food system, urban farms have the potential to make a large impact on the local food supply system. Within this report we focus on existing urban farming case studies to better understand how these farms function.

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‘One o’ the kitchen gardens’ illustrated by Inga Moore, in The Secret Garden.

Moore feels a powerful attachment to the English countryside.

Excerpt from a Guardian article about Inga Moore

I was spellbound by The Secret Garden as a child, and always lingered over Charles Robinson’s colour plates. Looking at that old book now I’m astonished to see that it had only nine illustrations. Moore has provided more than 100.

Again the old house provides inspiration with a real secret garden of its own, just like the one in the story which becomes a sanctuary for Mary, a lonely, unwanted orphan, and her sickly cousin Colin. Thanks to the garden, this story of loss, loneliness and ill-health soon becomes one of physical and spiritual regeneration.

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From Brooklyn Industries

Get in on the urban farming movement and Grow Your Own Food in this women’s graphic t-shirt.

Just $12.99 here.

3rd Prize Winner proposal for the Farmer’s Market Competition

By Lidija Grozdanic |
Evolo
December 26, 2011

Excerpt:

“Hop plant (Humulus Lupulus) is vigorous climbing vegetation and hops are used primarily as an important flavoring and stability agent in the beer making process. The proposal creates the sensual experience of a vibrant ‘garden’ where the hops are farmed on hop poles to create the building’s main green facade. The adjustable assembly systems of the modular vending bins are inspired from the natural material properties of hop pods.

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Block of 97 houses on the block surrounded by Hurst Street, Bullingdon Road, St Mary’s Road and Leopold Street.

“If everyone is responsible for the same communal space, it makes everyone feel safe and we can inspire and encourage each other to take steps towards more sustainable living.”

By Liam Sloan
The Oxford Times
30th November 2011

Excerpt:

Neighbours in East Oxford are being urged to tear down their fences and join their back gardens together to create a communal park.

Six people have been working with Green city councillor Matt Morton to draw up a masterplan for the block of 97 houses on the block surrounded by Hurst Street, Bullingdon Road, St Mary’s Road and Leopold Street.

They believe that if neighbours pool their land to create a single growing area, it could provide fruit, vegetables, eggs, and honey for every household.

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Tuvie design of the future

Designer : Dr.Hakan Gürsu

Pet Tree Vertical eco planting system has won Green Dot Awards and International Design Awards for its ingenious system. It utilizes re-used PET bottles by structuring these bottles into a unique tree-like shape that features an innovative water circulation system that collects rainwater while allowing drop irrigation. This system promotes reusing plastic bottles to reduce plastic waste in our environment and at the same time it’s a great solution for urban organic growers.

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“We wanted to make a model for urban farmers to build it themselves.”

By Lucia Suarez
Rutland Herald
December 13, 2011

Excerpt:

POULTNEY — Students from professor Lucas Brown’s environmental build and design course at Green Mountain College had the challenge to build a replicable and transportable urban farm shed during the fall semester. They unveiled the 8-foot by 14 foot Occupy Vacant Lots, or OVaL, shed on Monday.

“I really challenged the students with the idea of a farmer with a pickup truck and a circular saw building this,” Brown said.

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Majora Carter talks to these young farmers about what the experience has taught them about a hard day’s work — and about eating hard-earned produce. By Thepromisedland 2004.

A Food project in Manhattan, NY by Juliette LaMontagne

BREAKER is a 12-week program that mobilizes interdisciplinary teams of young, creative collaborators to design solutions to big challenges – in this case, Urban Micro Agriculture. Community gardens, local organic farming, and rooftop farms are a more prevalent part of our lives as we become more conscious of the food industry’s impact on our health, the economy, and the environment. So far, these gardens and farms have been wonderful sources for connecting people to food and to each other, but their impact remains small-scale, benefiting those who can afford to pay a premium for fresh food.

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Hanayui’ by Takaya Hanayuishi is Eccentrically Grandiose

By Ana Lo
Trend Hunter
Nov 14, 2011

Eccentric headwear is never out of style, especially if this fashion is eco-friendly like the pieces from the collection titled ‘Hanayui’ by Takaya Hanayuishi. The Japanese artist Takaya Harayuishi used flowers and raw fruits to create beautiful adornments for the head.

Link to story.

Link to Takaya Hanayuishi’s website.

Urban Farm Urban Barn – Return Farming to the City

Holcim Awards Silver 2011 Asia Pacific
Isavaret Tamonut, TTH Trading Co., Ltd, Thailand
March 2012

Project description
Located in a mixed use urban zone in central Bangkok, the Urban Farm Urban Barn aims to return green areas to the booming city. A former textile factory and abandoned farmland on an adjacent block shall be transformed into a 1.4ha agricultural production site and retail outlet. The atrophying rural economy is reactivated in the context of modern urbanity, and elaborated in a remarkable way. The factory building is converted into an eco-supermarket, additional buildings, such as a restaurant and marketplace are integrated into the crop production by becoming agricultural structures themselves.

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L’agence IND nous propose un nouvel outil de développement urbain pour Casablanca

By Mohamed Achraf Sehnoun
aMush
Nov 22, 2011

Excerpt:

Par le biais d’un concept original “Agriculture urbaine”, les architectes tentent de doter les habitants des douars de Casablanca ( population mixte issue de la campagne) d’une boîte à outils leurs permettant de diminuer leurs dépenses, d’améliorer leurs train de vie et de les responsabiliser vis à vis de leurs devoirs de citoyen.

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