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Haute Diversité with Åsa Sonjasdotter

Les pommes de terre with Åsa Sonjasdotter

By On 17 December, 2014 · 1 Comment · In Agriculture, Arts and culture, Growing, Resilience

The plain brown bag is adorned with a reproduction of Vincent Van Gogh’s Les Mangeurs de pomme de terre (The Potato Eaters), 1885. Although this version of The Potato Eaters is a reproduction of the lithograph,  Van Gogh first painted a version of this image after a trip to Paris.  […]

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Into the Middle of Nowhere

By On 24 January, 2014 · Leave a Comment · In Book reviews, Environmental activism, Forest, Growing, Resilience

I’m reading this book right now:  Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder.The author Richard Louv looks at the psychological effects of spending time in the natural world, which you may have guessed tend to be overwhelmingly positive for children and adults, improving creativity, mood, and social […]

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Go! Sheepies!: Visit to the Kultivator Farm in Sweden

By On 19 June, 2013 · 4 Comments · In Agriculture, Artist parents, Farms, Habitat, Homesteading, Resilience

Like everything they do, the sign leading to the Kultivator Farm is infused with humor. Konst och grönt (Art and Vegetables), a play on the typical Swedish kiosk sign frukt och grönt (fruit and vegetables). “It’s nice to have a relative who works for the city. He just shows up with these signs. Doesn’t […]

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Elegantly Capturing Rainwater in Østerbro

By On 3 May, 2013 · Leave a Comment · In Design, Neighborhood, Public space, Resilience

If every building in Copenhagen had rain barrels like this one—that could be used for watering decorative plants—it would dramatically reduce the amount of energy needed to clean “waste water” as well as the amount of drinking water used in maintaining city gardens and flower beds. It would also help prepare us for more intense […]

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Our resilient soy bean plant

By On 9 April, 2013 · Leave a Comment · In Agriculture, Dirt, Growing, Kitchen, Neighborhood, Resilience, Sojabønner

Last year we grew some heirloom soybeans at DRYK Nørrebro, the roof top urban garden in our neighborhood. We wanted to grow seeds that could tell a story and be shared from year to year. Growing these soy beans,  which even though they came from a seed […]

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OPI – Other Peoples’ Ikea: #2 Bigger Desk

By On 28 February, 2013 · Leave a Comment · In Design, Public space, Resilience

In addition to working with Bonnie on the Mythological Quarter, I work with a group of artists called Temporary Services. We recently put up an exhibition of photographs, at the Architectural Association in London, documenting ways in which people modify public spaces either through direct manipulation or collective neglect. We made a poster to accompany […]

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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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Collectivity & Sheep’s Cheese in the Mugello Valley, Italy

By On 6 September, 2012 · 1 Comment · In Farms, Resilience

I recently returned from spending a week in Italy’s Tuscany region in a Medici-era villa in the Mugello Valley at the newly launched Corniolo Art Platform. I was there co-leading a residency program called Decompression Camp organized by Radical Intention and Valerio del Baglivo, young curators devoted to socially […]

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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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Søndag brombær / Sunday blackberries

By On 12 August, 2012 · Leave a Comment · In Neighborhood, Public space, Resilience

We spent some time this morning gathering blackberries in a favorite spot of ours in an empty lot near our apartment. It seems as though the berries were late to ripen this year. However, they are in incredible abundance, which also seems different from last year. We spent a little less […]

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