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1 URBAN GARDENING & AGRICULTURE
2 POLITICAL/ GUERILLA GARDENING
3 COMMUNITY GARDENS | MGMT | GOVERNANCE
4 GARDENS & ORGANIC HORTICULTURE
5 ALTERNATIVE COOKING | EATING | LIVING
6 REDUCE | REUSE | RECYLE
7 ARCHITECTURE | URBAN PLANNING | TEMPORARY USE | PARTICIPATION
8 SUSTAINABILITY & COMMONS
9 WATCH
10 VISIT
11 INITIATIVES & ORGANISATIONS
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1 URBAN GARDENING & AGRICULTURE
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1 URBAN GARDENING & AGRICULTURE
1 URBAN GARDENING & AGRICULTURE
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Jennifer Cockrall-King (2012)
Food and the City. Urban Agriculture and the New Food Revolution.
Peter William Atkins and Ian Bowler (2008)
Food in Society. Economy, Culture, Geography.
City Farmer
Canada’s Office of Urban Agriculture.
Urban Agriculture Notes (until 2008)
City Farmer News (2008 onwards)
Mark Gorgolewski, June Komisar and Joe Nasr (2011)
Carrot City: Creating Places for Urban Agriculture. Monacelli Press: New York City.
Robert Klanten, Sven Ehmann and Kitty Bolhöfer (2011)
MY GREEN CITY. Back to Nature with Attitude and Style. Gestalten: Berlin.
Worlds of Food: Place, Power, and Provenance in the Food Chain.
Darrin Nordahl (2009)
Public Produce. The New Urban Agriculture. Washington.
Jac Smit, Annu Ratta and Joe Nasr (Eds.) (1996)
Urban Agriculture. Food, Jobs and Sustainable Cities. Washington.
Wiskerke, Johannes S. C. (2009)
On Places Lost and Places Regained. Reflections on the Alternative Food Geography and Sustainable Regional Development.
In: International Planning Studies, Jg. 14, H. 4, S. 369 – 387.
Johnny's Garden, Glasgow.
Adopt an urban beehive.
Capital Bee, London
"Campaigning for bees, forage and pesticide free city."
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URBAN BEES
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Johnny's Garden, Glasgow.
Adopt an urban beehive.
Capital Bee, London
"Campaigning for bees, forage and pesticide free city."
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2 POLITICAL/ GUERILLA GARDENING
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Green Guerillas
New York City based NGO to support Community Gardens.
Guerilla Gardening
Richard Reynolds' record of … cultivations around London … and an arsenal for anyone interested in … [the] public space as a place to grow things.
Guerilla Gardening
Richard Reynolds' record of … cultivations around London … and an arsenal for anyone interested in … [the] public space as a place to grow things.
George McKay (2011)
Radical Gardening. Politics, Idealism & Rebellion. London.
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3 COMMUNITY GARDENS | MGMT | GOVERNANCE
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Australian City Farms & Community Garden Network (2008)
Community Garden Starter Pack.
Eat Smart Move More North Carolina (2009)
Growing Communities through Gardens.
Jeffrey Hou, Julie M. Johnson and Laura J. Lawson (2009)
Greening Cities, Growing Communities: Learning from Seattle’s Urban Community Gardens.
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4 GARDENS & ORGANIC HORTICULTURE
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Evergreen, CA
Urban Agriculture Fact Sheets.
- Community Gardens: Themes and ideas
- Tips and Techniques for the Natural Garden
- Windbreaks, corridors, hedgerows, living fences
- Gardening in small spaces
- Growing your own sprouts
- Vermi-composting for beginners
- A guide to backyard composting
- Growing and using Herbs
- Organic Food Gardening
- Caring for plants organically
- Managing weeds and pests organically
- Build a backyard herb spiral
- Designing community spaces
Buchley Eco Centre Ltd.
'composting and related recycling operations on the site at Buchley Farm, East Dumbartonshire'
Coach House trust
84 Belmont Lane
Glasgow G12 8EN
+44 (0) 141 334 6888
Organic Growth
'Low Input Sustainable Agriculture Practice and highest quality Horticulture advice from Lanarkshire to reduce soil erosion and improve crop yields'
Organic Grow Stockist 'Fresh 'N' Fruity'
5 Cumming Drive, Mount Florida
Glasgow, Lanarkshire G42 9AE
+44 (0) 7805874256
Poyntzfield Herb Nursery
specialising "in the cultivation of herb plants and seeds using organic and biodynamic principles"
Catalog of plants native to Scotland
Black Isle
By Dingwall IV7 8LX
Ross & Cromarty, Scotland
+44 (0)1381 610352
info@poyntzfieldherbs.co.uk
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5 ALTERNATIVE COOKING | EATING | LIVING
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GLOBAL
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Brian Halweil (2004)
Eat here. Reclaiming Homegrown Pleasures in a Global Supermarket.
Babara Kingsolver (2007)
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life.
Marion Nestle (2007)
Food Politics: How the Food Industry Influences Nutrition and Health.
Marion Nestle (2012)
Food Politics Blog.
Michael Pollan (2008)
In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto.
Michael Pollan (2006)
The Omnivore’s Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals.
Platform 21
Repair Manifesto. Stop recyling. Start Repairing.
'… opposes throwaway culture and celebrates repair as the new recycling'
Recyclart.org
'Inspiration to feed your recyle mind.'
Glasgow Wood Recycling
'a social enterpise and charity committed to reducing the amount of wood needlessly going to landfill by finding creative ways of recycling and reusing'
Unit 6 Barclay Curle Complex
739 South Street
Glasgow G14 0BX
+44 (0) 141 237 8566
info@glasgowwoodrecycling.org.uk
Joshua Bolchover (2012)
Vitamin Green. London, New York.
Andres Lepik (Ed.) (2011)
Moderators of Change. Archtitecture that helps. Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz
Philipp Stierrand (2008)
Food and the City: The Relevance of the Food System for Urban Development. PhD Dissertation. Summary.
André Viljoen and Kathrin Bohn (2005)
Continuous Productive Urban Landscapes - Designing Urban Agriculture for Sustainable Cities. Oxford, Boston.
Marit Rosol (2012)
Community volunteering as a neo-liberal strategy? The case of green space production in Berlin. In Antipode 44 (1): 239-257.
Marit Rosol (2010)
Public participation in post-Fordist urban green space governance: The case of community gardens in Berlin.
In International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 34 (3): 548–563.
Capital Growth, London
"The campaign to support 2,012 new community food-growing spaces for London by the end of 2012"
Elinor Ostrom (1990)
Governing the Commons. The evolution of institutions for collective action. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge.
Lexicon of Sustainability
Insights and experiences from the foremost practioners of sustainability of food and farming.
mundraub.org
'Free fruit for free citizens'. A platform to map locations of free/abundant fruit and nut trees.
Federation of City Farms and Community Gardens | UK
International Assessment of Agricultural Knowledge, Science and Technology for Development (IAASTD) (2009) Agriculture at a crossroads.
International Peasant Movement to defend small-scale sustainable agriculture as a way to promote soical justice and dignity.
La Via Campesina (1996) The Right to Produce and Access to Land. Voice of the Turtle.
Reclaim the Fields
Collective of young people and projects willing go back to the land and reassumt eht control over food production.
Declaration of Nyéléni 2007
"Now is the time for food sovereignty"
Seed Freedom
Vandana Shiva's global movement to defend seed freedom.
Arche Noah | AU
Seed Savers Association in Central Europe.
Seed Savers Exchange
Marion Nestle (2007)
Food Politics: How the Food Industry Influences Nutrition and Health.
Marion Nestle (2012)
Food Politics Blog.
Michael Pollan (2008)
In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto.
Michael Pollan (2006)
The Omnivore’s Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals.
Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future
The Agriculture and Health Gateway.
"a vetted collection of reports, journal articles and other resources [.] … on public health and agriculture"
Slow Food International
"Good, Clean and Fair food"
Eat Seasonably
"helps you enjoy fresh fruit and veg at its seasonal best"
Fife Diet (2012)
The Food Manifesto.
Greener Scotland (2012)
What tastes best this month? In-Season Food Calendar for Scotland.
Glasgow Local Food Network
Connect to build a strong, resilient local food economy for the future.
Blasda
Scotland's local food feast.
Nourish Scotland
Scottland's Sustainable Local Food Network.
Glasgow Farmers Markets
Dates 2012
1st & 3rd Saturday of each month, 10am - 2pm
Queens Park (Southside)
520 Langside Road
Glasgow G42 9QL
2nd & 4th Saturday of each month, 10am - 2pm
Mansfield Park (West end)
Dumbarton Road/ Hyndland Street
Partick, Glasgow
Whitmuir Farm
the organic place
Organic Farm, butchery, shop, restaurant, bakery & gallery
West Linton EH46 7BB
Locacvore Glasgow | G41 3AJ
weekly veg/daiy&meat bags ranging from 5GBP
email reuben@glasgowlocavore.org to subscribe.
The Whole Shebag Farm| West Calder, EH55 8LQ
different sized bags of organic vegetable/fruit/ or mixed, free range eggs
email GU Food Coop glasgowunifoodcoop@gmail.com to order.
Glasgow City Council
Fit for Life. Glasgow Cycling Route map.
displaying all existing key cycle routes and a city centre gradient and traffic density map.
Glasgow Critical Mass
Last Friday of every Month
George Square
meeting from 5.30pm, approximate start 6pm.
(Copenhagen) Cycle chic
"Dress for your destination, not your journey"
Momentum Mag
"smart living by bike"
Worldwide Cycling Atlas
"The most significant Cycling Initiatives around the World"
City of Portland (2007)
Descending the Peak Oil: Navigating the Transition from Oil and Natural Gas.
Portland State University (2005)
The Diggable City Project. Making Urban Agriculture a Planning Priority.
Rob Hopkins
Transition Network. Communities heading towards a "Life beyond Oil".
Post Carbon Institut
Post Carbon Cities. Preparing local governments for energy and climate uncertainty.
"a vetted collection of reports, journal articles and other resources [.] … on public health and agriculture"
Slow Food International
"Good, Clean and Fair food"
Eat Seasonably
"helps you enjoy fresh fruit and veg at its seasonal best"
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SCOTLAND
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Fife Diet (2012)
The Food Manifesto.
Greener Scotland (2012)
What tastes best this month? In-Season Food Calendar for Scotland.
Glasgow Local Food Network
Connect to build a strong, resilient local food economy for the future.
Blasda
Scotland's local food feast.
Nourish Scotland
Scottland's Sustainable Local Food Network.
Glasgow Farmers Markets
Dates 2012
1st & 3rd Saturday of each month, 10am - 2pm
Queens Park (Southside)
520 Langside Road
Glasgow G42 9QL
2nd & 4th Saturday of each month, 10am - 2pm
Mansfield Park (West end)
Dumbarton Road/ Hyndland Street
Partick, Glasgow
Whitmuir Farm
the organic place
Organic Farm, butchery, shop, restaurant, bakery & gallery
West Linton EH46 7BB
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WEEKLY VEG & FRUIT BOX/BAG SCHEMES
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Locacvore Glasgow | G41 3AJ
weekly veg/daiy&meat bags ranging from 5GBP
email reuben@glasgowlocavore.org to subscribe.
The Whole Shebag Farm| West Calder, EH55 8LQ
different sized bags of organic vegetable/fruit/ or mixed, free range eggs
email GU Food Coop glasgowunifoodcoop@gmail.com to order.
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CYCLING
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Glasgow City Council
Fit for Life. Glasgow Cycling Route map.
displaying all existing key cycle routes and a city centre gradient and traffic density map.
Glasgow Critical Mass
Last Friday of every Month
George Square
meeting from 5.30pm, approximate start 6pm.
(Copenhagen) Cycle chic
"Dress for your destination, not your journey"
Momentum Mag
"smart living by bike"
Worldwide Cycling Atlas
"The most significant Cycling Initiatives around the World"
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PUBLIC TRANSPORT
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linking cities around Scotland by bus
900 Glasgow - Edinburgh
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PEAK OIL, PEAK SOIL, PEAK EVERYTHING
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City of Portland (2007)
Descending the Peak Oil: Navigating the Transition from Oil and Natural Gas.
Portland State University (2005)
The Diggable City Project. Making Urban Agriculture a Planning Priority.
Rob Hopkins
Transition Network. Communities heading towards a "Life beyond Oil".
Post Carbon Institut
Post Carbon Cities. Preparing local governments for energy and climate uncertainty.
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6 REDUCE | REUSE | RECYLE
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Platform 21
Repair Manifesto. Stop recyling. Start Repairing.
'… opposes throwaway culture and celebrates repair as the new recycling'
Recyclart.org
'Inspiration to feed your recyle mind.'
Glasgow Wood Recycling
'a social enterpise and charity committed to reducing the amount of wood needlessly going to landfill by finding creative ways of recycling and reusing'
Unit 6 Barclay Curle Complex
739 South Street
Glasgow G14 0BX
+44 (0) 141 237 8566
info@glasgowwoodrecycling.org.uk
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7 ARCHITECTURE | URBAN PLANNING | TEMPORARY USE | PARTICIPATION
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Joshua Bolchover (2012)
Vitamin Green. London, New York.
Andres Lepik (Ed.) (2011)
Moderators of Change. Archtitecture that helps. Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz
Philipp Stierrand (2008)
Food and the City: The Relevance of the Food System for Urban Development. PhD Dissertation. Summary.
André Viljoen and Kathrin Bohn (2005)
Continuous Productive Urban Landscapes - Designing Urban Agriculture for Sustainable Cities. Oxford, Boston.
Marit Rosol (2012)
Community volunteering as a neo-liberal strategy? The case of green space production in Berlin. In Antipode 44 (1): 239-257.
Marit Rosol (2010)
Public participation in post-Fordist urban green space governance: The case of community gardens in Berlin.
In International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 34 (3): 548–563.
Capital Growth, London
"The campaign to support 2,012 new community food-growing spaces for London by the end of 2012"
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8 SUSTAINABILITY & COMMONS
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Elinor Ostrom (1990)
Governing the Commons. The evolution of institutions for collective action. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge.
Lexicon of Sustainability
Insights and experiences from the foremost practioners of sustainability of food and farming.
mundraub.org
'Free fruit for free citizens'. A platform to map locations of free/abundant fruit and nut trees.
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9 WATCH
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Another World is plantable! | Ella von der Haide, 2003-2006. Buernos Aires, Berlin, South Africa.
Food Inc. | Robert Kenner, 2008.
Food Inc. | Robert Kenner, 2008.
Good Food Bad Food | Coline Serreau, 2011.
Our Daily Bread | Nikolaus Geurhalter, 2005.
Raising Resistance | Bettina Borgfeld & David Bernet, 2012.
Taste the Waste | Valentin Thurn, 2012.
The Edible City |
The End of Suburbia | Gregory Greene, 2004.
The Garden | Scott Hamiltion Kennedy, 2008.
The Price of Sugar | Bill Haney, 2008.
The World According to Monsanto | Marie-Monique Robin, 2008.
Our Daily Bread | Nikolaus Geurhalter, 2005.
Raising Resistance | Bettina Borgfeld & David Bernet, 2012.
Taste the Waste | Valentin Thurn, 2012.
The Edible City |
The End of Suburbia | Gregory Greene, 2004.
The Garden | Scott Hamiltion Kennedy, 2008.
The Price of Sugar | Bill Haney, 2008.
The World According to Monsanto | Marie-Monique Robin, 2008.
Urban Roots. When Everything Collapses Plant Your Field of Dreams. | Mark MacInnis, 2011.
We Feed The Word | Erwin Wagenhofer, 2005.
TED talks
Britta Riley (2011)
Tristram Stuart (2012)
Pam Warhust (2012)
Stephen Ritz (2012)
Majora Carter (2006)
Jamie Oliver (2010)
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10 VISIT
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HUNGRY CITY | agriculture and food in contemporary art | until 28.10.2012 | kunstraum kreuzberg/bethanien, mariannenplatz 2, berlin/d
CARROT CITY BIRMINGHAM | exhibition on urban agriculture initiatives from around the world and explaining techniques for small scale planting in urban spaces | 08.05.12 - 31.07.12 | made, 7 newhall square, b3 1ru | others erfurt/d, paris/f
CARROT CITY BIRMINGHAM | exhibition on urban agriculture initiatives from around the world and explaining techniques for small scale planting in urban spaces | 08.05.12 - 31.07.12 | made, 7 newhall square, b3 1ru | others erfurt/d, paris/f
SAVE FOOD FROM SUPERMARKETS | mobile exhibition on locally disappearing vegetables | @ de etende mense (eating by design) | 30.06.12-30.09.12 |designhuis, eindhoven/nl
HACK THE CITY: TAKE CONTROL | exhibiton to bend, tweak and mash-up dublin's existing urban systems - rethinking the city from the ground up | 22.06.12-06.09.12 | science gallery, dublinb/ie
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11 INITIATIVES & ORGANISATIONS
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Federation of City Farms and Community Gardens | UK
"…. supporting, representing and promoting community-managed farms, gardens, allotments and other green spaces …"
SAGE | Scotland
'Sow and Grow Everywhere'
Creates and connects food growing spaces … in Scotland.
G R O W | Glasgow
'Garden revolutions of the West end'
"… aims to encourage, promote and facilitate sustainable urban agriculture and food production through engagement with public and private green spaces within the Hillhead and Woodlands areas of Glasgow."
Creates and connects food growing spaces … in Scotland.
G R O W | Glasgow
'Garden revolutions of the West end'
"… aims to encourage, promote and facilitate sustainable urban agriculture and food production through engagement with public and private green spaces within the Hillhead and Woodlands areas of Glasgow."
South Seeds | Glasgow
"Growing a greener Glasgow"
Intercultural Gardens - City Landscapes of a Migratory Society
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COMMUNITY GARDENS
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GLASGOW
Woodlands Community Garden | G4 9BY
The Hidden Gardens | G41 2PE
Urban Roots | G42 0LE
Friends of Kersland Lane | G12
UK
STUDENT COMMUNITY GARDENS
The Hidden Gardens | G41 2PE
Urban Roots | G42 0LE
Friends of Kersland Lane | G12
UK
The Union Street Orchard | LONDON
Urban Physic Garden | LONDON
EUROPE
Gartendeck | HAMBURG
STUDENT COMMUNITY GARDENS
Student Community Garden | UNIVERSITY OF ST. ANDREWS
Student Community Garden | UNIVERSITY OF ST. ANDREWS
University Allotment and Permaculture Society | UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH
Harvard Community Garden | HARVARD UNIVERSITY, MASSACHUSETTS
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AGRICULTURE, FOOD INDUSTRY & FOOD SOUVEREIGNTY
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International Assessment of Agricultural Knowledge, Science and Technology for Development (IAASTD) (2009) Agriculture at a crossroads.
La Via Campesina (1996) The Right to Produce and Access to Land. Voice of the Turtle.
Reclaim the Fields
Collective of young people and projects willing go back to the land and reassumt eht control over food production.
Declaration of Nyéléni 2007
"Now is the time for food sovereignty"
European Food Sovereignty Movement
International Assessment of Agricultural Knowledge, Science and Technology for Development (IAASTD) (2008)
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SEEDS & AGRI-BIODIVERSITY
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Seed Freedom
Vandana Shiva's global movement to defend seed freedom.
Arche Noah | AU
Seed Savers Association in Central Europe.
Seed Savers Exchange
'a non-profit organization dedicated to saving and sharing heirloom seeds […] since 1975'
Campaign for Seed-Souvereignty
'Sowing the Future - Harvesting Diversity', fighting i.a. the new EU-Seed legislation allowing only registered seeds to be traded within the EU.
Revision of the EU seed & propagating material (S&PM) law 2012
"… has impact on agro-biodiversity (diversity of plant varieties), activities of farmers and seedsavers and on consumer choices"
- European Commission (2012) Legislation Review
- European Commission (2011) Option and analysis of possible scenarios for the review of the EU legislation on the marketing of seeds and plant propagating material.
Campaign for Seed-Souvereignty
'Sowing the Future - Harvesting Diversity', fighting i.a. the new EU-Seed legislation allowing only registered seeds to be traded within the EU.
Revision of the EU seed & propagating material (S&PM) law 2012
"… has impact on agro-biodiversity (diversity of plant varieties), activities of farmers and seedsavers and on consumer choices"
- European Commission (2012) Legislation Review
- European Commission (2011) Option and analysis of possible scenarios for the review of the EU legislation on the marketing of seeds and plant propagating material.
