Archived Activity
Start-a-Seed
Launch the Field Meridians Seed Library with a day of seed starting, workshops, and community exchange.
When
Saturday, March 9 2024
Where
Brower Park Library, Brooklyn Public Library
Time
12:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Cost
Free with RSVP
Max # of Participants:
Unlimited
About Facilitator
Field Meridians is an artist collective committed to strengthening local food ecologies. Through site-specific programming, publishing, and radio broadcast, Field Meridians engages the Crown Heights community to lay the foundations for food sovereignty in the heart of Brooklyn.
Objective
Celebrate the start of the Spring planting season with us through paper pot making, seed starting and seed packet decorating. We’ll be hosting two workshops (schedule below) and launching a community-powered seed library hosted in partnership with the Brooklyn Public Library, Brower Park branch.
1PM – Fermenting Spring Greens with LinYee Yuan, Field Meridians
2PM – Native Pollinator Seed Bombs with Madeleine Young, MOLD
What's Included
- Seeds
- Soil
- Seed Packets
What Participants Should Bring
- Contributions to the seed library
- Clean glass jars and tops for fermentation workshop
Requirements
- None
Disclaimer
In case of inclement weather, we’ll be moving the workshops inside to the community room at the library.
Curriculum
Everything is connected. Join Field Meridians in an exercise to visualize the underground mycelial networks of Brower Park. Each participant will leave with a toolkit for mapping their own neighborhood tree families.
In an interactive lecture and park stroll, the group will draw from historical records of the park, oral histories from local neighbors, and the most recent scientific papers about mycelial communication to create a group artwork.