VISIONARY INSTITUTE
Eating the Land: Meals, Feasts and Gastrosophy
Food Is Love
This page brings together examples of creative and pedagogical projects that explore food cultures and the associated practices of thinking, making, growing, sharing, celebrating, reciprocating and eating with the land.
Over the years, the many flavours and faces of food—and this universal, everyday necessity—have become central to my ART and Land Practice. Food is more than sustenance; it is a way of cultivating relationships with place, with one another and with the more-than-human world. Through shared meals, growing, foraging, cooking, preserving and feasting, I explore how everyday food practices can inspire and mobilise transformation towards futures—and presents—that nurture, heal, support and sustain the complex web of life.
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Inspired by the ethos of Slow Food, my work follows food from earth to table, celebrating the sensuous, ecological and metabolic entanglements that connect us with the land. Growing, tasting, cooking, eating, feasting and philosophising become creative acts that nourish body, mind and heart while cultivating community, reciprocity and resilience.