UNM Art Studio 389 / 429 / 529. This course provides a context in which students can build on the collective knowledge and experience being developed within the university and local communities and to combine the pragmatic, ecological, and social dimensions of creating urban food gardens with artistic invention and critical, expansive thinking. This blog is a space for posting thoughts, ideas, references, resources, and works.
Wednesday, June 5, 2013
Planter-Blitz
On day 3, we were invited to lend a hand with building some raised-bed planters for the folks at Casa de Amigos halfway house. UNM Landscape Architecture professor Katya Crawford along with Noreen Richards from the Architecture Department, have been volunteering their services here and are develop plans to build on-site gardens and a greenhouse from re-claimed materials. These raised beds are just the beginning of what promises to be a wonderful and generative project.
Tuesday, June 4, 2013
Visit to Skarsgard Farm
Throughout the course of our first module, we are looking at the relationship between food and the city. As we visit various sites throughout the city, we hope to uncover, document, analyze and plot some of the hidden or overlooked environmental, social, economic and spatial relationships that make up the urban foodshed.
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| Students help farm interns consolidate pepper plants for transplanting. |
Thanks to the cheerful interns and to Wesley James for showing us around and for giving us a first-hand experience of life on the city's largest organic farm.
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