Caravan Marsh Radio Island / Marsh Island Caravan / Caravan Marsh Island
What is this thing we’re developing? Title explorations: Is it an: Occupation? Process-based research? Parade? Convergence? Convening? Or a Caravan? car•a•van (ˈkær əˌvæn) n., v. -vaned -vanned, -van•ing -van•ning. n. 1. a group of travelers journeying together for safety, as through deserts, hostile territory, etc. 2. any group traveling in or as if in a caravan, as pack animals or vehicles. 3. a […]
Growing Spartina Alterniflora: Suggestions/Contacts
Conversing with Joanie McLean of Mellow Marsh Farm in North Carolina unearthed the following… Spartina Alterniflora is hard to grow from seed, and particularly hard to winter over. Seeds need to be watered and drained frequently to simulate the tide. When watered, they must be fully saturated with water and then drained completely. Because it’s […]
boundaries and borders
“If Entelechy aspired to be a landscape I think maybe it would be a salt marsh; an intertidal zone. The sociologist Richard Sennett makes the distinction between borders and boundaries. He talks of natural ecologies where borders are the zones in a habitat where organisms become more inter-active; places where different species or physical conditions […]
grasses
lets start with getting some smooth cordgrass, Spartina alterniflora maybe can be found here: http://www.grownativemass.org/resources/nurseries here is a very interesting description of hte birth of a salt marsh “A salt marsh is “born” by the arrival of a seed or the rafting of a plant of the cord grass Spartina alterniflora. The grass spreads asexually […]