Victory Gardens for Diversity: recipes for community-based ecological
engagement is an artist residency
project at Terra Nova Park. Our team includes lead artist, Lori Weidenhammer, Lois Klassen, Crystal Lee, Jenn
Pearson, Catherine Shapiro, and Lori Snyder. Looking
forward to inviting you to participate in gardening, bioblitzing, cooking,
stitching, dyeing, making paper and creating with us in 2020!
Update: Our residency is now complete! Please enjoy our blog and check out our webinars posted on Youtube.
This year-long artist
project is inspired by the historical WWII Victory Gardens movement and popular
slogans such as: ‘grow your own, can your own’, ‘grow vitamins at your kitchen
door’, ‘make-do and mend’, and ‘use it up, wear it out, make it do’. Our artist
team will present a diversity of public engagement events including nature
walks, citizen science activities, drama and rainbow arts with children from
the Nature School, textile-based artist workshops and the creation of
biodiversity banners, incorporating printing, embroidery, drawing, cyanotypes
and the production of natural dyes and pigments. There will also be tea parties, bioblitzes
and picnics with artist-led workshops including hands-on planting, seed-saving,
salve-making, tincture-making and cooking activities.
Thursday Oct. 1 7-8:30 pm
Victory Gardens for
Diversity presents the final presentation in the series Gardens of Our Lives: a webinar with Lori Weidenhammer
Kinder Gardens: New Visions for Pollinator Habitat
and Accessible Food Systems
This is now up on Youtube:
https://youtu.be/8FM99slJeGw
A grandchild of
depression-era prairie settler farmers, Lori Weidenhammer has worked as an
artist-educator in several school and community gardens. She is passionate
about connecting people of all ages to plant and insect biodiversity and
beauty. As a wrap-up event to her group’s residency at the Terra Nova Farm,
Lori will share her vision for a more ethical, ecologically sound way to
produce food and preserve biodiversity in cities and rural areas. This will be
a call to action: to work together as agri-cultural dreamers to learn from our
experiences during the pandemic and make dramatic, lasting improvements to the
way we manage our overburdened ecosystems.
