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Foraging for a taste of the past

Follow tips from a professional forager to recreate delicious 18th-century recipes from plants growing wild in parks and on urban wasteland.

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“Above resistant pavements, I floated”

In this extract from ‘Living with Buildings and Walking with Ghosts’, walk with Iain Sinclair through the streets of London.

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How Californian dairy farmers stole a way of life

When European settlers drained a beautiful Californian lake to provide dairy grazing, the lives of nearby Native American peoples changed out of all recognition. But recent rainfall is strengthening hopes of a return to the old ways.

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How to rehabilitate the concrete jungle

A huge concrete housing estate from the 1960s, now seen as an ecological mistake, is being drastically redeveloped, compounding the environmental errors. Owen Hatherley posits a more creative solution.

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  • Ruins at Carthage, with salt marshes in the distance, Tunisia. Watercolour by Charles Gülin, 1778.
  • GNAPHALIUM ULIGINOSUM (MARSH CUDWEED)
  • Dr. Marsh. Photograph by Maull & Co.
  • Marsh marigold or kingcups (Caltha palustris): flowering stem. Watercolour.
  • Marsh mallow plant (Althaea officinalis): flowering stem. Watercolour, 1906.
  • Plan of a salt-marsh. Etching by Bénard after L.J. Goussier.
  • Geography: a mirage in a marsh. Coloured wood engraving by C. Whymper.
  • A flowering marsh mallow plant (Althaea rosa). Coloured lithograph, c. 1850, after Guenébeaud.
  • Marsh St. John's wort (Hypericum eloides): flowering stems. Colour nature print by H. Bradbury.
  • A wild boar in an enclosure in the marsh. Etching by J. E. Ridinger.
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