Future Gardening with Peat-Free Soil

RE-PEAT

Join us for a collaborative exploration on how potting soil relates to peatlands and how we want to tell this through (better) stories!

Rietveld House

Peat soils forms very slowly but it is still exploited for the horticultural industry faster than it can possibly grow. Realising how important peat-free gardening is, Kate Foster invited the youth led collective RE-PEAT to hold a workshop during the Our Living Soil exhibition. Changing gardening practices has been one of RE-PEAT’s foci in their work pushing for a peatland paradigm shift.The workshop will refer to both art and science to ask: what has potting soil got to do with peatlands? And why are peatlands so important? Starting from the setting of Amstelpark we will ask: What can everyone do? What habits need to change? What about national and political level? We will go on to think how we could communicate ideas for better future gardening, that is peat-free. Participants will be invited to craft suggestions, through collage and storytelling. We will explore together questions such as how can we tell better stories about peat-free gardening? How to share stories that exist within various tensions? The crafting process will be relaxed and informal, a chance to share ideas while chatting with the RE-PEAT team members and Kate Foster. With participants’ permission, the messages can feed into further Our Living Soil events over the summer. Materials will be provided. Participants are also invited to bring all sorts of materials to collage with (think potting soil bags, old magazines … etc.)All ages and experiences welcome! Please note - most of the session will be held in English with Dutch as a second-language!De workshop wordt in het Engels gegeven met Nederlands als tweede taal. For more information on RE-PEAT, please see their <a href="https://www.re-peat.earth/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">website</a>For more information on getting here, please see <a href="https://zone2source.net/en/visitors-information-2/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Zone2Source&#x27;s website</a>

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