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Guide To Free Farming - 5.5 Designers

The Guide to Free Farming' reveals the unsuspecting resources hidden in our towns. Recipes include street flower salad and grilled rat, along with instructions for plucking a pigeon, and using expired food.

5.5 designers proposed 'the guide to free farming' at the ICSID world design congress during singapore design week 09. lead by design indaba the research project uses radical solutions to produce food, energy and resources.

The Guide to Free Farming project was presented in the form of a book that aimed to restore a close relation between consumers and the natural environment, creating a shorter link to guide people who live in cities to take on the role of farmers in their urban environment. it is about farming in the city and encourages readers to discover the unsuspecting resources hidden in our towns. the book includes recipes like street flower salad and grilled rat, along with instruction guides to, for instance, plucking a pigeon or a starling just as we once plucked chickens, tips for collecting dandelion greens, snails and honey, as well as guides to mushroom picking and uses for expired food is also included. the good address section provides schedules for traditional gleaning sessions at our best markets and food factories.

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