This week’s tofu pressing includes dandelion greens from the neighborhood, Lichtenberg, we are staying in here in Berlin, and ginger. We have been looking for ways to get a better sense of where we are in relation to the local ecology and how people use their city spaces. Gathering dandelions is a good […]
Greg Sholette: Fifteen Islands for Robert Moses, at The Queens Museum
Greg Sholette added fifteen islands to the amazing scale model of New York that is housed at the Queens Museum. He asked fifteen people to propose islands. I was one of the people asked. I asked Greg to construct a […]
We are feeling a bit disconnected as we are not in Copenhagen for March and April, but are in Berlin. We are having a hard time orientating ourselves to the local ecology and understanding how this place works. This kind of awareness takes a really long time to develop (i.e. feeling and intuiting rather than […]
This post (meandering online on Saturday) contains projects that create meaning by moving through space, either with walks, drawings, or projects that document these types of activities. One way to develop a relationship to the place you live in is to physically move through that place–putting one foot in front of another creates […]
We are volunteering at the Skolehaver [school/teaching garden] in our neighborhood because we support what they are doing and want our daughter to one day be able to join the great programs there. We are also hopeful of getting access to a small plot there to raise our own vegetables and to do […]
Here is this weekend’s experiment with tofu. We used both lime and lemon juice as the coagulant to make the soy milk curdle.
We are very happy that spring is upon us and couldn’t resist using a couple of flower pots to both shape and press the tofu. First we put […]
Onsdag: Billede fra kvarteret / Wednesday: Picture from the ‘hood
There are several of these camouflaged bird houses in the square near our flat. We really like them and have been talking about making some of our own to put out. We think it is a good idea in general to provide habitat for animals in the city. Would be really great to see the […]
Here is our latest experiment with pressing our own tofu. We made a paste of crushed peanuts, soy sauce and shredded basil leaves. The paste is in four layers in the tofu. We spread the first layer in the press, put in some curd, followed by another layer of paste, then more curd, […]
Three triangular planters claiming space from cars and traffic, waiting for spring to fully arrive.
We have become obsessed with making tofu. We have heard from a few of you as well that you are making your own tofu. Please send us pictures of your tofu!
Here is our latest experiment: we pressed shredded carrots into the tofu. We haven’t cooked it yet. We think that maybe if […]
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Watch our interview of SeedBroadcast, a mobile project that is part seed library and part seed-saving-story-collecting machine-recording the stories of seed saving, farming, and food sovereignty work being done around the US.
Download a poster Bonnie made about biodiversity in a vacant lot in the Amager borough of Copenhagen, in collaboration with biologist, Inger Kærgaard, ornithologist, Jørn Lennart Larsen and botanist, Camilla Sønderberg Brok: A BRIEF TAXONOMY OF A LOT
We made and installed a network of bat houses in Urbana, Illinois, to support the local and regional bat population, but also to begin a conversation about re-making the built environment.
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We write often about artists and art groups that work with putting ‘culture’ back in agriculture. Here is a new favorite: myvillages, a group of three women based in Germany, the Netherlands, and the UK. Read more...
Post Revolutionary Exercises
We really admire the dedicated hard work of Kultivator who seeks to fuse agriculture and art in their work. Click this sentence to get a PDF of their poster collection called "Post Revolutionary Exercises."
Cultural Practices Within And Across
This amazing book networks urban and rural resilience and sustainability projects around the world. Deeply inspiring projects in Romania, Paris, San Francisco, and elsewhere.
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