…which will be in desperate need of fertile compost and amendments – were dramatically dumped in front of the apartment building with the very visible and vacant front yard where we will be planting Edible Estate #13 starting ..
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…meaning “Matan the gardener” in Hebrew, is the super cool gardener, nursery owner, organic food garden activist/facilitator who we traveled 30 minutes north of Tel Aviv to visit today – conducting a video interview with him about the historic and current conditions of Israeli urban food production and gathering plants for Edible Estate #13 in ..
…this morning – after a 22 hours of travel, a 2:30am landing, and five hours of deep sleep – we headed south to Holon for some meeting, interviewing, planning, calculating, and designing for the selected site of Edible Estate #13 before meeting with local community garden organizer Orna Yukevitch, who took me on a tour of ..
…to all of the family, friends, neighbors, and local volunteers who came out to help establish Edible Estate #15 this weekend! Catherine Schoenherr, John Schoenherr, Andrea Schoenherr, Stanley Leonard, Aaron Schoenherr, Kristin Beardsley, Roseann Schoenherr, Ken, Sarah Schultz, Eric Crosby, Anna Bierbrauer, Ashley Duffalo, Bartholomew Ryan, Will Gobeli, Bridget Mendel, Larry and Mary Haeg, Danny ..
…last night (the first of many to come this summer) was the highlight of Edible Estate installation weekend, as John Schoenherr fired up his new front yard wood-fired oven while the last of the plants were hitting the dirt and briefed us on the logistics of rolling out and preparing our own pizzas for the ..
…at Edible Estate #15 in Woodbury was a bit more tranquil than the heavy-duty sod/rock/log/dirt moving yesterday, but still hectic with hundreds of plants, trees, shrubs, vines, and seeds of many varieties being set out by myself and landscape architect Anna Bierbrauer – in the beds established the day before – for teams of friends, ..
…installation with the hands of over 50 volunteers gets us farther along than I had hoped, finishing the day with most of the lawn rolled up and piled in mounds covered with fresh compost, vegetable beds bermed up to the back of a log circle, a U-shaped woodland path under the existing crab apple, a ..
…of the Woodbury, Minnesota residence where we are laying out the first design marks of Edible Estate #15 this afternoon make it seem like aimless drunken teens went on a joyride spinning out a perfect circle – but it is actually marking the only bit of grass that will be left when we are done ..
…commissioned by the Walker Art Center for the Minneapolis Sculpture Garden tonight was proceeded by a mad dash for some teapots and tea party accoutrements to Wendy at Practical Goods in St. Paul – where I have already been sourcing everything for the Domestic Integrities installation opening in the galleries August 8th – and a ..
…has been evolving since the substantially sized Woodbury front lawn site was selected a few weeks ago, but we need to get real since it hits the ground on Friday with the design laid out on the lawn, on Saturday with dirt/wood/rock moving, and on Sunday with planting and mulching – so during my sacred ..
…at the Port of Rotterdam’s Maasvlakte 2 this afternoon – to inspect sites (with press in tow) for the 30 Animal Estates traffic signs that will be permanently placed at the end of next month – felt uncomfortably similar to the visit for filming in February, cold &..
…by frequent design collaborator Benjamin Reichen of Åbäke is in the works and today in Rotterdam we look at the new version, which tells the stories of 24 species of wildlife living within and around the heavy industry of the Port of Rotterdam that will also be recounted by the video we are producing in ..
…footage from a winter visit to the ‘new land’ of the Port of Rotterdam for Animal Estates 9.0 – opening June 29th – and the weather here today is not seeming different enough from the chilly scenes we ar..
…spotted on the drive from our Edible Estate garden site back to Aarhus is worth screeching to halt and turning back to inspect and get a few photos – the sort of thing that I really loved when I was younger, admiring a simulated version in the suburbs of Minneapolis g..
…saw a bunch of fruit trees planted in a gentle arc on the north side of the front lawn, hundreds of strawberry cuttings inserted in the terraced slope along the street, a series of cute little herb gardens in triangular raised beds installed, a seating semi-circle of logs placed, a wild area of berries planted, ..
…in the suburban development of Hammel outside of Aarhus, Denmark got off to a slow start this morning with only a small fraction of the 65 architecture students on hand to do the brute manual labor of boulder, log, and dirt moving, but when they finally did show up in force the garden took shape ..
…just steps from the site of Edible Estate #14 at the Pederson residence is one of my favorite things about the site, so down the street a few houses we go, entering into the dappled spring green shade with wheel barrows and bags in hand to gather things for the garden – long branches for ..
…outside of Aarhus, was selected selected as the site for Edible Estate #14 – with a family already growing food in the back, two little girls ready for a big garden, and a surrounding suburban development of similar homes ready for something different – and today I meet them for the first time to discuss ..
…in Stockholm this afternoon where everyone is soaking up the rays after a long winter, and though it is still a bit chilly to my sensitive LA constitution, the sun is already leaning towards it’s summer solstice here with sunset at 9:15 and sunris..
…are a helpful to see today, both in preparation for a June project here, and also planting in the similar climate of the Twin Cities in just a two weeks of for Edible Estate #15, so today we are at the extensive botanic gardens, Bergianska Trädgården, at the university, where in particular it the simulated ..
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