Seeing

Urban foraging in Hasenheide Park followed by cooking together.

An urban foraging tour allowed participants to see with new eyes and gain a fresh awareness of Berlin’s local plants. The process liberated all participants from the intellectual, perceptual, and visual processing traps that can lead to plant blindness; an inability to see or notice the plants in one’s own environment.

With this new awareness we carried the wild ingredients from Hasenheide park including mustard seed, wild spinach and elderflower berries. Collaboratively we prepared and cooked our foraged plants while sharing personal histories, stories and relationships to food.

Programming partners: Andrew Rewald & Contemporary Food Lab.