Spore hosts: Slugs, Tomatoes and Their Dreams in Common: A Poetry Workshop

Environment is made of all the multispecies participants working together. As you walk into the garden there is a lot going on among its inhabitants. We, people, hardly notice or understand most of it, and we have poetry and imagination for zooming in and out to reveal the common work.

If you are a poet you garden words and if you are a gardener you plant the greens. Seeds and words grow with nurture, moisture, pollinators and other conditions. Including patience, curiosity and experimentation too. We will spend four days together and become poets and gardeners, who work on a common ground with what is already there.

The goal will be to translate our experiences into books of visual poetry made of words, dried plants, natural colours and seeds.

In the workshop we will
one     Cook words and vegetables until we arrive at a common garden poetry
two         Squeeze words in sentences and ingredients into potions
three     Draw nutritious thoughts with water and with berry juice
seven         Wrapping garden skills and vegetables in leaves

In other words, we will observe the life of the garden, listen to the stories of the garden creatures, do experiments with water and plants, harvest vegetables from the garden and cook in the outdoor kitchen.