Eco-Art: David Nicholls

Traditional art and social sculpture: research in self-sufficiency, especially for conditions found in Wellington, New Zealand, plus related philosophizing.

Sunday, July 6, 2025

Agora for every suburb

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Ancient Athens was a genuine democracy partly because of the physical existence of agora, circular or semi-circular seating designed for all...

Saturday, June 14, 2025

Gestalt combinations as vegan/vegetarian meat substitutes.

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I find no single vegetarian or vegan food on its own comes close to meat for its multiple pleasurable qualities. I find I need a combination...

Friday, May 30, 2025

Aloe arborescens flower stem edibility

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In addition to the edible uses for Aloe arborescens listed on the Plants for a Future website https://pfaf.org/user/Plant.aspx?LatinName=...

Friday, May 23, 2025

Solar Dishes to Evaporate Wellington Municipal Wastewater

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Wellington City Council are looking at 1.8 billion to upgrade our antiquated wastewater/sewerage system (1). More crippling rates for every...

Friday, May 2, 2025

Bromeliad flower stem as food

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I find the peeled lower part of the immature flower stem of the epiphytic bromeliad Aechmea distichantha glaziovii is good to eat, white, ...

Sunday, April 20, 2025

Eating Taro spadix

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It appears the spadix of taro, Colocasia esculenta, is rarely eaten. But the book Cornucopia II by Facciola (1998) says the spadix (phalli...

Sunday, March 23, 2025

Rhaphiolepis umbellata seeds edible

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According to Tanaka's Cyclopedia of Edible Plants of the World 1976, the seeds of Rhaphiolepis umbellata are crushed, ground into flou...

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