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Making the Best of It: Dandelion Potlucks

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Between Northern Sparks 2016 & 2017, we convened a series of potlucks to eat nimbly in the face of changing climate, and to explore what it means to become more dandelion.

The timeline includes the following series of meals (that are documented in the path that begins on the bottom of this page):

Public Event #1  = September 30, 2016, Picnic discussion with dandelion tea at Macalester International Roundtable on Urban Sustainability (Sustainable Cities: Sharing Habitat, Building Resiliency) & City Arts Collaboratory book launch with the Northern Lights.mn Anthropocene Awareness Association
(5pm – midnight, with collaboration with workshop: NIGHT A’ROUND THE TABLE, Mira Ensley-Field, Naomi Klionsky, Robert Lin, Metric Giles, Melvin Giles, Delinia Parris, Valentine Cadieux, Seitu Jones, and dinner guests, Cultural House)
Documentation:
 
Public Event #2 = Oct 19, 2016: Dinner collaboration with David Szanto (University of Gastronomic Sciences) EcoGastronomy project
 
Related workshop in Cedar Riverside on the nature of RESIDENCY: November 11, 2016, Patty Healy McMeans, Sarah Petersen, Sarah Nassif, Valentine Cadieux, following weeklong workshop interactions with Janaki Ranpura

Related event connecting Dandelion drawing, printing, and sewing with Greens drawing and printing and sewing with Artist Botanist Sarah Nassif, at and following the Urban Farm and Garden Alliance Dec 3, 2016 First Annual Greens Cookoff, as part of the Art of Food in Frogtown and Rondo
 
Public Event #3 = April 28, 2017 Dandelion Teas at Lake Hiawatha Park (for forestry day) and the (Art Shanties) Tea Shanty, with food forest and permaculture communities, sharing conversation about how to eat nimbly in the context of challenges repairing hydrological hubris in the residential forest
 
Public Event # 4 = May 16, 2017 Dandelion picnic and drawing with Botanist Artist Sarah Nassif at Hamline Park (and Mosaic Studio, when it poured rain!) with Hamline University students

Public Event #5 = May 22, 2017 Making the Best of It: Dandelion meal at The Good Acre and Cornercopia Student Organic Farm with the Reimagining Food Studies crew
 
Public Event #6 = May 23, 2017 Making the Best of It: Dandelion Meal at The Good Acre and Cornercopia, University of Minnesota, co-convened with a cluster of scholars interested in ReImagining Food Studies

Public Event # 7 = May 25, 2017 Dandelion potluck picnic at Nokomis Community Center (site of Futures Topophagies workshop) before the Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board open house

Use of the Making the Best of It Dandelion's Unpredictability Picnic Kit continues -- napkins recently seen around town with the #MTBOIDandelion and #BecomeDandelion hashtags

To participate, click "Participate!" or "Loss, Danger, Joy" at makingthebestofit.today

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