Local artist, Arendse Krabbe gave a presentation about her research into plants, emotional connections with have them, and collective process, on April 9th at YNKB, the artist run space here in the neighborhood.
Arendse asked the audience to bring a special plant to her evening presentation. One with a […]
It’s been cold and snowy lately in Copenhagen, so I’ve been thinking about kitchen gardens (køkkenhaver). I’ve been working on a publication project with MQ friends, Micah and Rachel Bornstein. The pair is launching a small publishing imprint and I wrote a short piece on kitchen gardens, from the counter top […]
We were busy installing art work, we made together, at Flensborgade 57 yesterday, and took a break for lunch. When we stopped on Istegade, we noticed these three pallets rather clunkily, but lovingly, attached to this big wall. A variety of plants was growing between the slats. The garden wasn’t an add for anything nearby […]
Our resilient soy bean plant
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 […]
Our daughter received a set of wooden vegetables for her birthday– a radish, a lemon, a mushroom, and a carrot. The sharp, clean lines and shiny, bright colors, are both like and unlike real vegetables–like because of accurate color portrayal but unlike because no vegetable, worth eating, is so […]
We really miss having a garden of our own and sometimes we raise potato starts in our apartment for no other reason than that they make us happy and keeps our intimate knowledge of how to do this close at hand.
I was cleaning out some old pots we had in […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
The Intervale Center juts out from one end of the town of Burlington, Vermont. It has a set of values that every community should be working towards:
Our mission is to strengthen community food systems. Since 1988, we’ve been dedicated to improving farm viability, […]
Radio Aktiv Sonic Deep Map (2013)
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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