JEN RAE’S WILLOW

JEN RAE’S WILLOW

by | Feb 22, 2022 | JEN RAE, PARTICIPANT EVENT, VIDEO

The Willow – February 10, 2021 (Photo: Jen Rae)   A very large invasive willow tree is being taken down from Jen Rae’s back yard in Melbourne, Australia on Feb 11th, leaving the yard denuded. As a child in Alberta Jen would swing from a similar large willow...
SPANISH GARDEN

SPANISH GARDEN

by | Feb 6, 2022 | KELLER, PARTICIPANT EVENT, VIDEO

– What February looks like in Malaga, Spain. Juliana España Keller shares the early stages of creating a communal garden resource and artist residency in Spain. Her artistic proposition as a participant in THE PATCH will be constructed as part of a mediated...
PREPARE FOR SPRING

PREPARE FOR SPRING

by | Feb 23, 2021 | FEBRUARY 2021, GARDENING, THE PATCH

PATCH REVIEW: Each one of the 10 boxes is 4 x 8 feet. The smaller box is 4 x 4. Boxes are 4 feet high and there are 6 equally spaced posts of 5 feet on each of the 10 boxes. With a metal grid placed on the top to attach strings for the toms. The Patch area is 36 x 36...
TRANSFORMING TOMATOES

TRANSFORMING TOMATOES

by | Feb 22, 2021 | FEBRUARY 2021, FOOD BANK, THE PATCH, VIDEO

In front of La Table des Gourmets Val-David, February 2021Thanks to owners. Pictured left to right: Chef Thierry Rouye and Pascale Rouye, Michel Beaudry, Bonnie Baxter (bright orange hat) and Chef Louise Duhamel (in front). Annie Germain and Marilou Demontigny...
“BRAIDING SWEETGRASS”

“BRAIDING SWEETGRASS”

by | Dec 22, 2020 | DECEMBER 2020, GOOD READS

The book itself is a gift to everyone, and needs to be shared as much as possible. “modern capitalist societies, however richly endowed, dedicate themselves to the proposition of scarcity. Inadequacy of economic means is the first principle of the world’s wealthiest...
360 DEMO – THE TOMATO AND THE PHILOSOPHER

360 DEMO – THE TOMATO AND THE PHILOSOPHER

by | Nov 30, 2020 | THE PATCH, VIDEO, VR

“To use the world well, to be able to stop wasting it and our time in it, we need to relearn our being in it.   Skill in living, awareness of belonging to the world, delight in being part of the world, always tends to involve knowing our kinship as animals with...
DARK ROOM TOMATOES

DARK ROOM TOMATOES

by | Nov 1, 2020 | THE PATCH

I go down to a darkened room with all the green tomatoes on the floor and separate out the ripened red ones, take off the stems, and put them in bags and freeze them till they can be transformed all at once. I do this every two days as the toms slowly turned red at...
THE GIFT IN FALL

THE GIFT IN FALL

by | Sep 26, 2020 | MORELLI, THE PATCH

Made of wood and plaster, with metal elements, covered by netting filled with straw—they are slowly transforming to become one with the earth and part of The...
THE GIFT MORELLI

THE GIFT MORELLI

by | Jul 17, 2020 | MORELLI, THE PATCH

François Morelli brought me a gift of his 4 sculptures which, after traveling and exhibiting for 30 years, would find their final resting place on my land. Made of wood and plaster, with metal elements, covered by netting filled with straw—they will slowly transform...