lawns to loaves

Lawns to Loaves is a project exploring the limits and possibilities of where our daily bread comes from. The goals are ambitious yet simple:

• To successfully cultivate a hundred pounds of organic spring wheat within the city of Vancouver
• To engage our progressive city in an experiment regarding what defines a farm and to symbolically challenge the dominant scale of food production
• To teach project participants about the growing, processing, and baking of this staple food
• To explore the history of food production, the origins of our staple crops, and how this has influenced the patterns of migration throughout human history

To learn more about how you can get involved, email: lawnstoloaves@gmail.com

In May 2011, the Lawns to Loaves (L2L) collective planted our seeds in the ground. Where there was grass, there will be wheat.

To learn more about this project, check out the Lawns to Loaves blog and this article from Luke Brocki over at OpenFile: From backyard grain, local bread.

In this short segment, BCIT journalism student, Megan Turcato chats with L2L project participant, Revel Warkentin, and L2L project coordinator, Amy Tran: