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One reaps what one sows

A call for a wilder agriculture

2020
International garden festival
Chaumont-sur-Loire - FR

Program: Temporary garden installation
Area: 330m²
Team: Emma Morillon, Baptiste Gerard-Hirne
Status: Installation
Award: Transposable garden award

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International garden festival - 2020 edition
Garden’s presentation

In this space, agriculture and wild nature begin in tension and end in reconciliation. Monoculture (furrows in bare soil devoted to a single species) faces the wild spring, surrounded with living woven willows entwined with climbing plants, a diverse palette of edible and self-sustaining essences. In a third stage, the two registers converge, offering a composite of habitats, shifting light, and fragrance.

In basins, life-filled sticks with red bark seeds encourage sowing among the surrounding trees, shrubs, and perennials. Untamed, nature remains lush, humming with the sound of its bees and birds. Each seed is a gift to come for humanity. Chestnuts, willows, garlic, squash, elderberries soon intertwine with cereals. The land comes back to life. The fields thrive once again.