Gardens of Care
Nourishing Belonging: Seasonal Food Practices in Migration
Workshop with an informal exchange about food practices and shared meal. The workshop will be held mainly in Turkish, with German translation provided if required.
25. January 2026
14.00-16.00
14.00-16.00
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For Youths and Adults
in German/in Turkish
This gathering invites people from Turkish-speaking communities into a shared space of reflection, learning, and collective eating. Taking food as an embodied memory cursor and a powerful identity marker, the event explores how culinary practices function as a portable home across more than sixty years of Turkish migration to Germany and how they change. Through intergenerational food memories, we reflect on how tastes, recipes, and everyday nourishment have travelled, adapted, and taken root in new ecologies.
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Food is approached here not only as sustenance, but as a sensorial inventory: a medium through which climate, seasonality, health, and belonging are negotiated. Together, we will discuss how food cultures have transformed in response to Germany’s local conditions, and how migrants rework familiar practices using seasonal and locally-produced ingredients as part of their everyday emplacement.
The conversation will be accompanied by tasting and sharing. With natural health practitioner and phytotherapist Şaduman Karaca, we will reflect on seasonal nutrition, local winter vegetables, and herbal teas that support well-being during the colder months. While exchanging knowledge, we will enjoy a locally inspired winter soup.
The event combines discussion, sensorial experience, and conviviality, offering a space to think collectively about nourishment, memory, and adaptation in migration contexts.
