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Onsdag billede/Wednesday Picture

By On 21 November, 2012 · Leave a Comment · In Dirt, Growing, Homesteading, MISC, Wednesday picture

Walking past a small print shop in Vesterbro, we saw this window used as a greenhouse to grow tomatoes. The plants were wild, pressed against the glass and stretching out in all directions. There may have been more plants than just tomatoes but it was hard discern what was what among […]

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Svensk sojabønner / Swedish soybeans

By On 16 October, 2012 · Leave a Comment · In Agriculture, Dirt, Environmental activism, Growing, Neighborhood, Sojabønner

This summer we grew soybeans at Nørrebro’s rooftop garden, DYRK. They were heirloom Swedish soy beans (also known as Glycine Max) named Fiskeby III (there are numerous varieties of Fiskeby)  from a seed archive in Russia called the N. I. Vavilov Institute of Plant Industry (designated […]

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Byhaven 2200 – Kitchen garden in Nørrebro

By On 10 October, 2012 · 2 Comments · In Growing, Neighborhood

It is harvest time in gardens around the world. In Nørrebro, we have several neighborhood gardens, from DYRK Nørrebro to Den Fælleskøkkenhave (the logo of which is pictured above). This June we got a new garden–Byhaven 2200 [City Garden 2200]. It sits at the corner […]

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100.000 Trees

By On 1 October, 2012 · 1 Comment · In Growing, Public space, Resilience

We went on a walk in Bellahøj a few weekends ago. While there, we found a tiny park with a monument to Gandhi, the Indian anti-colonial activist. In Gandhi Park, we also found an installation of newly planted trees. These trees were part of the 100,000 Trær plan that […]

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Friday Connect: Agri-cultural

By On 28 September, 2012 · 1 Comment · In Agriculture, Environmental activism, Farms, Friday connect, Growing

Seed saving, composting, growing, planting, reaping and sowing, the cultivation of a field. Agricultural practices are a consistent source of inspiration for artists and designers. It can also be a place to start for rethinking how we relate to the landscape and how we think about conservation practices.This week’s links connect […]

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Onsdag billede / Wednesday Picture

By On 12 September, 2012 · Leave a Comment · In Arts and culture, Growing, Public space

Christian Philipp Müller’s floating Swiss chard garden at Documenta 13. The project is described as:

Christian Philipp Müller’s project for dOCUMENTA (13), which consists of turning six barges from the Cold War into floating Swiss chard gardens. By means of the sixty different varieties of Swiss chard grown on them, the ferries are […]

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Grønttorvet: The market’s market.

By On 3 September, 2012 · Leave a Comment · In Dirt, Farms, Growing, Neighborhood

Where does food come from when you live in the city?

Walking around Copenhagen, there are lots of small kiosk style stores (grønthandler) with fruit and vegetable stands lining their entry ways. On any city street you can find the sidewalk compromised with piles of […]

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Vermont Looks Like Vermont

By On 27 August, 2012 · Leave a Comment · In Forest, Growing, Neighborhood, Vermont correspondence

This post is part of a series by artist, present day naturalist, and extended MQ neighbor, Micah Bornstein. Bornstein lives in the Northern New England state of Vermont, where he thinks about local food, local ecology, and the social structures around these things. On a bi-monthly basis, he will be contributing text and […]

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Interview: Sue Spaid

By On 23 August, 2012 · 2 Comments · In Arts and culture, Design, Dirt, Environmental activism, Farms, Growing, Interviews

We recently had the privilege of talking with independent curator, Sue Spaid, on the occasion of the new exhibition at the Cincinnati Contemporary Arts Center, Green Acres: Artists Farming Fields, Greenhouses and Abandoned Lots. The exhibition focuses on artists in relationship to agriculture, and runs from September 22-January 20, 2013 in […]

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Video Interview with Seed Broadcast

By On 13 August, 2012 · Leave a Comment · In Arts and culture, Environmental activism, Farms, Growing, Homesteading, Interviews, Resilience

On a recent trip to the US, we met up with artist and food sovereignty activist, Jeanette Hart-Mann. In this video interview, we talk to her about her work with the Seed Broadcast project, a mobile project that is part seed library and part seed-saving-story-collecting machine-recording the stories of seed saving, […]

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