THE MODERN MINT BLOG
It’s that time again, mild panic starts setting in … Christmas gift shopping time! You want to get something good, …
What Is It Like To Be A Flower Grower In Winter?
Want to know more about flower growing? This is a guest post from the wonderful Carole Patilla of Tuckshop Flowers explaining what she does as a British flower grower during the off season (what off season?) Carole is a member of Flowers from the Farm. You can follow her here on Twitter. To see more of her work and what she can do for you here is her website Tuckshop Flowers. We are incredibly happy to be able to share this with you, so please do enjoy this insightful post about what a British flower grower does during winter! What is …
What Do I Do With This Space?
What do I do with this space? A question clients often ask us, a question we often ask ourselves. So it became the title of our new talk for winter 2014/2015… but to answer this question, we have realised, is a huge undertaking. Exploring potential answers left us delving deeper and deeper into new ideas, unpacking thoughts and contemplating the words of garden philosophers, and feeling ever more entangled by the question we had set out to explore. How could such a simple question become so complex? Or as Clarice Lispector puts it in The Passion According to G.H.: “I …
Chelsea Fringe 2015 – Call for Authors
We are looking for garden writers to take part in a Modern Mint project for the Chelsea Fringe Festival in 2015. What Is the Project? The project is called ‘Contemporary Green: How Do We Cultivate Our Garden?’ It is a free to download, free to share, free to print book co-authored by garden writers like you. What Do You Need To Do? Write a 100 word ‘manifesto’ answering the question ‘How Do We Cultivate Our Garden?’ The question can be answered however you see fit – literally, philosophically, with an environmental bent, from a cynical worldview – the choice is …