Edible Invasives
Interactive land art installation utilizing local “invasive” Russian Olive and squirrel species Christie Green hunted, harvested and cooked into tea, jam, jerky and broth for participants to taste.
Invited by Axle Contemporary Gallery, “Wilderness Acts” at Leonora Curtin Wilderness Preserve, Santa Fe, NM. 2016.
Axle Contemporary‘s WILDERNESS ACTS at Santa Fe Botanical Garden‘s Leonora Curtin Wetland Preserve listed as one of the top 10 art exhibitions in New Mexico for 2016 by Art Ltd Magazine.
On the menu: Squirrel broth, squirrel jerky, Russian Olive jam and Russian Olive tea.
Human form of dining table and place settings in unlikely “natural” setting of wildlife preserve.
Squirrel station.
Squirrel meat prepped for drying into jerky.
Russian Olive fruit tasting station.
Russian Olive fruit and leaves.
By offering these “invasive” species as previously undervalued flavors and sustenance, we reconsidered who determines who belongs where and what species are useful or valuable.
Tasting Russian Olive jam, sipping squirrel broth, sipping Russian Olive tea.
A feast of invasives set under a canopy of Russian Olive trees.