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About Maize Field
This summer I'm growing blue corn in two areas of Brooklyn as part of a public art project called Maize Field. The gardens are located in Boerum Hill and Canarsie.
Each garden is located in an area that was documented as Indian maizeland in the 17th century. They are traditional three sisters gardens (corn, beans and squash) using crop varieties that are part of the heritage of the Lenape and Haudenosaunee from this region. The gardens are a meditation of the change and displacements that have been a part of New York's history. The project participates in the continual change that defines the city by highlighting a historical past then integrating that history back into the present landscape.
You can also visit the project's website at: http://brooklynmaize.org/
Sponsors of this project: Brooklyn Arts Council, DOT Urban Art Program, Boerum Hill Association, The Invisible Dog Art Center, and Greensulate
Each garden is located in an area that was documented as Indian maizeland in the 17th century. They are traditional three sisters gardens (corn, beans and squash) using crop varieties that are part of the heritage of the Lenape and Haudenosaunee from this region. The gardens are a meditation of the change and displacements that have been a part of New York's history. The project participates in the continual change that defines the city by highlighting a historical past then integrating that history back into the present landscape.
You can also visit the project's website at: http://brooklynmaize.org/
Sponsors of this project: Brooklyn Arts Council, DOT Urban Art Program, Boerum Hill Association, The Invisible Dog Art Center, and Greensulate
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- The Lenape Blues going strong
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- Pizza and Beer are not Fertilizer
- Lenape Bean sprout, Canarsie
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- Rogue Brooklyn Street Corn
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- Smith and Bergen FOUR WEEKS LATER
- Lenape Blues are doing OK
- Sunday Ride to Canarsie
- Now the good news at Smith and Bergen
- First the Bad News at Smith and Bergen
- Canarsee Planting Land is up and running again
- Canarsie nail-biter
- Filling in the cracks, again
- The Lenape Blue is getting bigger
- Biking to Canarsie
- Huck's Lenape Bean at Smith & Bergen
- Taking a Nap
- New Sign
- Bean Planting with Kids from PS 261
- East 91st Lenape Blues
- Rainy Night on Smith St
- Planting beans with Huck
- L'eau de The Invisible Dog Art Center
- Squash: Neck Pumpkin, Canarsie
- Back to the land, Canarsie
- Thinning
- Saturday Morning at Smith and Bergen
- The plan for Canarsie
- People hanging out around the corn at Smith and Be...
- Filling the cracks
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Great project. Wrote about it here. Love how it's being used as a bench, too.
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