Grounding
by Martina Sattler and Sarah Neidhart
The project “Grounding” focuses on the various uses of community gardens and the different cultures that can be detected from them. Many immigrants in Vorarlberg come from agrarian societies where a garden or a small patch of land signifies far more than it does in an industrial area like Vorarlberg. The use of such parcels for cultivating food contrasts with the classic image of these gardens today, involving garden gnomes and well-groomed lawns. Observations and conversation with gardeners in three different community gardens in the village of Hard near Bregenz led to the creation of “plant passports” that contain descriptions of the plants from the gardens. The descriptions refer to the origin and use of the plants as well as how frequently they are used in certain types of gardens.
The plant passports remind us of the migration of many plants in earlier centuries. Usually viewed as indigenous today, they have made themselves at home in the gardens and taken root.
“The soil connects us with our neighbors, with other people and institutions. The soil connects us with our innermost strength.” (Tassew Shimeles, Project Director of International Gardens in Göttingen, Germany)
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