permaculture

["Graham Burnett" <gburnett@unisonfree.net>]

A little off topic (perhaps no less so than the requests for info about the 
wartime 'Dig For
Victory' campaign that recently appeared on the gardening lists- to my mind 
it's all in the same
tradition :-), but a request for info...

I've just been reading in Peter Harper & Godfrey Boyle's 'Radical Technology' 
(published in the
70's by 'Undercurrents' Magazine- itself a classic of the era) about a group 
active in London in
the early seventies called the Street Farmers, who took their inspiration 
from the Situationist
International and events of Paris 68, and advocated basically ripping up the 
streets and pavements
and planting them up with fruit trees and vegetables, as well as radical 
architecture concepts like
urban estates consisting of living houses created from bamboo, etc....

Does anybody out there have recollections of this group, or copies of the 
magazine they published
in 1972, which apparently contained "a series of fantastic collages and 
cartoons" which articulated
their vision?

I'd love to know more + see these visions!

In anticipation,

Graham Burnett
35 Rayleigh Avenue
Westcliff On Sea
Essex, UK
SS0 7DS

South East Essex LETS
http://pages.unisonfree.net/gburnett/