Photo: Andre Gaetano
Activity
Saturday April 26, 2025
Spring and Summer Plants: Sowing Resistances in a Time of Climate Emergency
Mobile Garden community vegetable patch
A year after the first community planting activity in the Mobile Garden vegetable plot, we’re meeting up again for the spring planting with Col·lectiu Eixarcolant. We’ll plant new squads and remember the ones we’ve nurtured over the years. We’ll talk about the uses of these plants, we’ll revive recipes and evoke memories to generate a shared knowledge bank.
Join us to rethink our link to community plots and discuss what new green spaces have to offer city contexts. We’ll share our experiences of the last year spent setting up the plot and we’ll map out our intentions for the future. Have we managed to break with a productivist approach to move towards a new way of nurturing relations and emotions?
We’ll pull out the winter plants to make way for new spring crops, which we’ll be looking after in the coming months. The seeds we’ll be planting in this collective spring activity include species well-suited to this environment, edible wild plants and medicinal plants.
Cultivating wild plants and incorporating them in our diet is a strategy for adapting to climate change. Reviving local garden varieties and edible flowers that over the years have shown their ability to adapt to drought is a practice for resilience. While we’re planting the plot we’ll talk about the ethno-botanical memory associated with forgotten plants. We’ll play around and experiment with crop associations and with harmonious combinations, turning the space into a small oasis of life and remedies. We’ll talk about food, medicine and rituals.
CAP Raval Nord, El Casal dels Infants, MACBA and Metzineres, participate at the community vegetable patch
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Eixarcolant is a collective whose aim is to promote a model of food production, distribution and consumption, as well as more sustainable, ethical and fairer socioeconomic development via the recovery of edible wild plants and traditional agricultural crops. Since 2016 they have carried out projects throughout Catalonia in the fields of research, territorial dynamisation, outreach and training, and consultancy to enable these crops to once again be ethically and sustainably grown, sold and consumed. To find out more, visit eixarcolant.cat.
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