[NetBehaviour] Iteracy And The Digital Humanities

[Helen Sloan]

James

I am already learning about my garden and have many of the things bad and
good going on - much of which you documented.
My point was - do we programme or learn to work the land? Which I suspect
you know. And my feeling is that both are going to be very useful.
I am also aware that I am lucky to have a garden to work in. Both
programming literacy and the ability to work land might be tricky in the
medium to longterm future.

I don't need lessons in gardening (I am learning on the job) but I might in
programming. And the other point I made is that programming and technology
might have many contexts.

H


On 13/10/11 23:53, "James Morris" <james at jwm-art.net> wrote:

> On Thu, 13 Oct 2011 20:30:04 +0100
> Helen Sloan <helen at scansite.org> wrote:
> 
> ...
> 
>> So now, my thought is do I go back to my garden and learn to grow
>> vegetables for subsistence (which I've spent some months working on)
>> or do I sign up for that Java/C course I've been meaning to learn for
>> 10 years? Both I suspect will be great skills to have now and in the
>> future.
> 
> If you spend most of your time inside currently then I would say get
> out into you garden! My partner and I have been growing our own veg for
> a couple of years now and it's really satisfying (when it goes right).
> 
> Though depending on the size of your patch, you might find you have
> time to do both. The vegetables themselves do most of the hard work, we
> just prepare the ground for them and a little maintenance such as
> weeding and watering.
> 
> If you are space-limited it can be a bit tricky working out where to
> place things especially while considering the seasons.
> 
> Runner beans, broad beans, potatoes, courgettes, chard, tomatoes, all
> easy to grow :-)
> 
> Having massive problems at the moment with slugs, snails, and
> caterpillars devouring kale, spring cabbage, and purple-sprouting, but
> they seem to leave the chard alone.
> 
> 
> James.
> 
>