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Artwork at Big Green Gathering, originally uploaded by gavinandrewstewart.

 

BBC 2 Newsnight's Ethical Man reorts on The BGG...... 

foodistas

Cycle-energy Smoothies, originally uploaded by Fintan.

I was just in the middle of editing the last interview i did... I'm excited about it cos i wanted to tell the story about the pedal powered smoothie stall all week, and it happened... more or less by chance. It needs plenty of cutting around... it was a long, natural interview with a whole tribe of young cycle juicers. Dynamo driven... local fruit, excelent nutritious refreshment... scurvy would never strike at this festival! and a wicked festival enterprise that could work... and does in some places... at farmer's markets.

Wheting your appetite i'm afraid, that juicy number will be along soon.. as will meetings with:

plant-curd man

fizzy pop

a great Cornish box-schemer

Cider hotties

............ there's all sorts o stuff on the disc.

Now, you can hear one of my favourite's so far:

Lovely Fishy Bhagies

Oh dear that looks pretty like not much... but i promiss to send more soon.

Food and Farming at the BGG

Theres some pretty cool food stuff going on at this amazing site. 20000 people landing on these fields for a week. For the rest of the year the limestone plateau of the mendips grows grass, which feeds sheep and cattle. We must go and explore the gorge and Cheddar... where the cheese comes from. These hills and that plain down there are intricately linked in a mixed livestock farming... cheese and meat... cider not too far away!! Another day listeners.

For now, listen to some interviews with some farmers and producers from the area.  (Right click save file/link as)

Andy The Farmer 

 Wooton Dairy

Linda's Bread

This is all new... has been enormous fun doing... please, faithful readers, use the comment link down below to give me feedback... i'd really like you to keep coming back so tell me what you would like to hear..... 

Liz...who helped me get started

The moon is rising. 

Podcasts are up.

GreenBeanRadio is live.

Liz, no surname... because whats most interesting is that she creates programmes for a pirate radio station in Brighton. Thankyou so much for the help, encouragement and inspiration.  Listen to (right click save file/link as...)

an interview with liz

Arc ... The inventor, interviewed by Liz 

schedule interviews....

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Gathering Green Bean

Up on the Mendips, top of the world above cheddar and not a farm away from where Mother Bean (peabean) worked her first farming summer is agathering of people - an alternative tented city. This is everything green, from the solar panels and wind turbines powering the sound systems, horse-drawn transport around site, herbal healing for those wasp stings and chemical lives..... woodcraft... costumes.... colour and joy. For a few days this is a confluence, a concentration of green life, its a nomad encampment and a futuristic, ideal driven community all at once.

Fallen in with Green Radio.... radio pirates, web and podcasters.... cables, minidiscs, microphones, solar panels... capturing the performance and personality and broadcasting live on 88.7.... and meant to be streaming out on the web sson.

Greenbean radio can go live now after sitting shy, idle and hidden in the  menu bar for months.... here they're helping me find my voice. Liz is a reporter for Brighton pirate "Radio 4a", she's taken me under her wing... and i'm so chuffed to announce and present features we made yesterday. today we'll be off around again... plans to get more food stories and some wierd and wonderfful healing sessions too. Georgina (www.solidsilence.com ) who was on the "desk" all day yesterday put our peice gathered from the stages... updating on the printed program. Liz's interview with the arc inventor went out in the evening with John.... taxi driver, in 1985 got in on the radio while at glastonbury... radio avalon.... a pirate station covering glastonbury festival before going official. since then he's been bringing  broadcast to alternative festivals.

Another presenter is Martin, the Martian. Coming from Bristol, he's wandering the site here, collecting interviews and recordings and putting them out on his evening show. One of these days some of them may be posted as podcasts at radiodialect.net

 So, listen to some of the features and interviews in greenbean radio.... and come back soon for more and more!!