User:Cameron Kletke/Holly Schmidt

Improvement to an existing article: Last section entitled "Grow: an Art + Urban Agricultural Project." Link: Holly Schmidt - Wikipedia

Grow: An Art + Urban Agriculture Project[edit]
In a public intervention project with Other Sights for Artists' Projects between May to November 2011, Schmidt harvested and engaged local community in a living ecological laboratory in the middle of the city that she called Grow. In a vacant industrial lot near Vancouver's Olympic Village, Schmidt occupied the space with a living garden that brought people together to share their knowledge and experience in sustainable design and Eco-philosoph y. Activated by activities such as the Grow Seed Exchange, walking dialogues with disciplinary experts on sustainability including Designer Duane Elverum and Trudeau Scholar Rajdeep Singh Gill, and drop-in workshops on urban farming, visitors practiced new potentials for growing food against the backdrop of high-end condos that mark Vancouver's notorious housing market. Using social practice methods, the events create collaborative, informal, grassroots interaction that model an alternative social structures in contrast to industrial food systems.

The work evolved into other participatory and collaborative events, such as Moveable Feast at Burnaby Art Gallery which featured foraged food and locally found ingredients, honey, spiced mead, fermented beverages, simple cheese making and pickled vegetables. The series provided workshops with underground chefs including Fermented Beverages.

Added to above article: proper punctuation, hyperlinks to "Fermented Beverages." Additional source added to her Moveable Feast exhibition at Burnaby Art Gallery.