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This is me:

This is me:

This is me:

HORTA

A series of initiatives that creatively explore alternative food futures;
more resilient and collaborative ones

January 2024 - Ongoing

(Pronounced 'oohrtah')
“Horta” means “food garden” in Brazil. There is no 1 word for “food garden” in English like there is in Portuguese. In English, it is a type of garden, that specifies in food growth. But a horta is not a type of garden that specifies in food growth, it is its own unique thing. And that being its own thing, gives it value and importance.

For me, a horta makes tangible the hope to a different future, a new kind of relationship between people and food. A horta invites community to come together, teach and learn, grow and experiment with new things, it asks for diversity rather than sameness, and it offers reciprocity.

Currently HORTA initiatives include:

A collection of stories of people's intimate, cultural and social relationships to food

An assortment of workshops that invite people to re-think their relationships to food through making

A personal research into my own heritage in relation to food

The activation of under-utilized public spaces as communal food gardens

An ongoing diary mapping where our foods come from.

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