Town is the Garden Chapbooks are now available!
Co-Editors Joss Allen and Caroline Gatt
The Town is the Garden (2017–20) was a three-year creative community food-growing project run by Deveron Projects, a socially engaged arts organisation in the northeast of Scotland. The project set out to explore how a rural agricultural town might begin to rethink its relationship to food and to food growing in an era of increasing awareness of climate and ecological emergency, from the community up. Through a collective investigation into the processes of learning and sharing skills related to food growing, the project explored how a community might also begin to pay better attention to the entanglement of human and more-than-human worlds. Food became a lens through which to investigate more broadly the dichotomies between culture and nature, ecology and economy that together with the colonial, racist and patriarchal systems have led to the current environmental catastrophes.
This set of seven chapbooks captures the diverse creative learning programme developed through the project. Working with a range of practitioners that contributed to the project, the series includes critical texts, instructions and recipes, and poetry.
The original project had a very specific geographical focus in a literal sense but the themes are topical and universal – this set will appeal to anyone with an interest in the project principles and themes. A stunning set of beautiful books; a thought provoking and thoughtful gift for a friend, or for yourself.
