Town Is the Garden Chapbooks

Critical texts, recipes, and poetry from a creative community food-growing project in Scotland.

"Town Is the Garden" was a three-year creative community food-growing project run by Deveron Projects, a socially engaged arts organization in the northeast of Scotland. The project set out to explore how a rural agricultural town might rethink its relationship to food and food growing in an era of increasing awareness of climate and ecological emergency. Food becomes a lens through which to investigate the dichotomies that have led to the current environmental catastrophes. Through a collective investigation into the processes of learning and sharing skills related to food growing, the project explored how a community can better pay attention to the entanglement of human and nonhuman worlds. This set of six thought-provoking chapbooks captures the diverse creative learning program developed through the project.

Author: Caroline Gatt
Publisher: Intellect (UK)
Published: 07/04/2023
Pages: 200
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.48lbs
Size: 5.98h x 4.17w x 0.94d
ISBN13: 9781907115370
ISBN10: 1907115374
BISAC Categories:
- Gardening | Essays & Narratives

About the Author
Caroline Gatt is an anthropologist, performer, and senior research fellow at the University of Graz Institute of Cultural Anthropology and European Ethnology in Austria. She is a co-investigator on the (Musical) Improvisation and Ethics project, funded by the Austrian Science Fund. Joss Allen is a Helsinki-based artworker and gardener exploring how creative practices can shape earthy politics, community economies, and ecological ways of being. He was a coordinator of the three-year community food-growing project Town is the Garden in Scotland.