Brett has been making tofu, from scratch.
His investigation into this labor intensive process started because the store bought tofu selection in most Danish grocery stores is expensive and not so fresh. In fact, the selection, such as it is, includes one brand of lumpy grey tofu in a jar and […]
Small acts and restraints
A while ago, when we lived in Urbana, IL, I made this poster with my friend Micah Bornstein. It is a hand carved wood block plate print, with letterpress type, printed on a Vandercook proofpress. It says, “Preserve” at the top and, “a kitchencentric life” at the bottom. We made the poster to […]
The first time we visited Dyrk Nørrebro, the local urban garden on the roof of a school, one of the gardeners gave us a pepper plant. The little plant was wilty and all of the peppers were green. It had been growing since April with not a single ripe pepper. This […]
A recent home improvement project here in the Mythological Quarter: Make your own lampshades. This was an easy project to do, but time consuming. So with more time than money, I made three paper mache lampshades for our apartment.
Indoor plants require attention. You are the weather system. Sadly, I often forget to water the plants I am trying to grow indoors. I have created many an artificial drought from inattention. I get busy with my daily life and soon I have a sad, little wilted plant that is past the point of saving.
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It is possible to grow more edible things indoors than the odd basil plant on your window sill.
For example, blackberries!
When we first moved to Copenhagen, we lived near a part of the city where blackberry bushes grow on the side of the road. Before we moved […]
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SUPERKILEN – Extreme Neoliberalism Copenhagen Style
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Video interview:
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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BOOK REVIEW:
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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