Coming soon w. Dan S. Wang, Erick Lyle, Andrea Jenkins, Monica Haller, and many more…
On Sunday the Food Enough? group met at the shop and proceeded to move out to the park with frequent Food Enough? conversant, Monica Haller to discuss her on-going collaboration with University of Minnesota soil scientists, Soil Lab.
The discussion centered on how we can arrive at discussions around things like soil straight on, purely through a lens of environmental effects and degradation, but that by widening our lens, looking at soil allows us an avenue to think beyond purely the organic landscape to a space of questioning that opens us up to consider the social landscape as well.
Sun, May. 15, 2016 ⁄ 4:30–6:00pm
Food Enough? – Soil Lab
Since the beginning of the year a group of 9th Ward neighbors, environmental explorers, and urban farmers have been meeting together with the Twin Cities Agricultural Land Trust at the experimental publication site, Beyond Repair, in the Midtown Global Market. We’ve called our get-togethers Food Enough? We’ve gathered to discuss ideas and possibilities around truly equitable food land use in the Twin Cities and how the meeting of like minded yet disparate skills and knowledge can help put into place a landscape that is more abundant and fruitful than we’ve yet to imagine.
On May 15, at 4:30pm, we invite you to bring a handful of soil to explore, and talk with the conveners of the Soil Lab project and neighbors interested in our relationships with soil. What lives in the soil here? What can we learn from soil about ourselves and our surrounding systems, and therefore what can it teach us about equity and inequity, about our neighborhoods and societies?
We invite you to join us, add your thoughts, and broaden the ideas and experiences within Food Enough? towards future conversations and actions.