A child of the city, now grown, decided to face her discomfort with the forest. Because this particular forest was a foreign one, where the trees spoke Estonian, Berlin-based artist Nadin Reschke asked local schoolchildren to help her communicate with them. In this video, the children teach her words for talking to trees: words soft as moss.
Posts Tagged ‘woods’
Mooste, Estonia: “Forest, do you have any bears?”
Posted in Plants worldwide, Projects from others, tagged children, forest, participation, talking with plants, trees, video, woods on 14 November 2013| 2 Comments »
Berlin: Edible plant walk
Posted in Berlin plants, Edible plants & recipes, tagged Berlin, blankenfelde, botanical garden, edible, field, grüne liga, herb, walk, wild plants, woods on 15 June 2009| 5 Comments »
In a city with many wild-growing plants, you begin to wonder if some might be useful. When I weed my 10 square meters at the community garden, carting piles of unknown plants to the compost heap and leaving just a few lonely vegetables amidst bare dirt, it seems ridiculous to dismiss so many robust green plants just because they are weeds, i.e. just because I didn’t plant them. But beyond young dandelions, which I’ve started taking home and sautéeing, what other wild plants are good to eat?
Thanks to a tip from Berlin Reified, I got the chance to find out more. I signed up for a Kräuterwanderung (herb walk) led by the very knowleadgeable and enthusiastic Elizabeth Westphal of the Berlin Grüne Liga, an environmental non-profit. Last Friday, she led about thirty urban plant enthusiasts through the beds, fields and woods of the botanical park in Berlin-Blankenfelde. Here are some of the plants we tasted.