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• 1 2016-12-10T15:23:42-08:00 Shared Learning & Translation 2 Approaching Food, Society, Environment How-Tos Together gallery 2017-04-11T07:02:23-07:00

  • Making the Best of It: Dandelion is a year-long series of site-specific pop up food refuges and community dinners that will span NS16-17. The project features climate-change enabled (and often unwanted) edible indicator species, in order to engage publics in tastings and conversation about the risks of climate chaos, our business-as-usual food system, and the short term food innovations at our disposal.

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  • Making the Best of It: Dandelion elected as its poster child the humble dandelion, Taraxacum officinale. Abundant, nutritious, adorable, symbolic, and disliked by lawn-owners, this invasive plant offers a model of eating and thinking about human and interspecies well-being on a variety of levels. It is highly adaptable, does well in disturbed ecosystems, and is of significant interest to a variety of species, from bees to our gut microbiome. In addition, its anatomical response to different environmental conditions makes it an interesting guide for exploring the complexity of climate instability.

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  • At Northern Spark 2016, a custom pop-up “refuge” will offer free servings of dandelion, in food and beverage forms, and accompanied by a graphical system of information, provocations, and recipes.

  
  
  
  Health Benefits of the Dandelion
  
  Minnesota’s Changing Climate: a curriculum guide
  • This guide was created by Hamline's Center for Global Environmental Education (CGEE) in cooperation with the Will Steeger Foundation.
  Plate Tectonics
  • convention theory
  • environmental justice
  • food sovereignty
  • Food Field Guides
  • FoodWords Glossary
  
  
  
  Food Advocates - practice crew
  • feeding a crowd (education program)
  • practicing, scenario play, trying different modes of documentation and sharing them for feedback