These are images from my seed ball making party on September 24, 2011 at my ArtPrize project Nebula: A Growing Installation. The more seed balls the public takes, the bigger the installation gets.
Children love making seed balls! They made some to take home and also left some at Nebula to share with others. Thanks for participating everyone! 
More pictures of Nebula: A Growing Installation here at Flickr.
I designed these stickers to be Kickstarter pledge rewards and also to give away at my seed ball making parties at ArtPrize.
I’ve been playing around with Geotype (old school graphic design tool, they are little wax letters you can burnish onto paper, thanks Tom!), and I came up with this Spread Seeds text:
In my sketches I had some ink drawings of plants and spouts:
Combined they created the finished sticker.
Update: Funding was a success! Thank you backers, supporters and attendees.
I’m doing a site-specific clay graffiti installation in downtown Grand Rapids, Michigan for ArtPrize. I’m so excited, it’s going to be an awesome 19 days. My birthday is on September 27th during the artsy shenanigans, it will be the best birthday ever. I get to share my new work and, at the same time, share gardening with people. Yip!
I would be as happy as a spaceship of kittens if you could help me out by spreading the word on social networks and other interweb hangouts.
These bars turned out very moist and delicious, not to mention resourceful!
How it was done:
Mix the dry together in a bowl:
1 1/2 cup of flour
Dash of cinnamon and nutmeg
Handful of poppy seeds
1/2 t of baking soda
Dash of sea salt
Dash of vanilla bean powder
Then the wet in another dish:
1 container of Arrowhead Mill’s Pour n Bake Pumpkin Pie Filling
1 1/2 t molasses
1/3 cup oil
Small lime, juiced
1 egg
Blueberries for pattern
Topping: 1/8 cup brown sugar
1 T honey
Enough water to make saucy
Mix dry into wet, pour into a greased baking dish, and press blueberries into top. Bake for 25 minutes at 350 degrees.
You can choose to add sugar to the batter (with the wet ingredients), the bars came out less sweet than I predicted (pour n bake pumpkin had added sugar, so I didn’t add sugar other than a bit of molasses). That’s when the brown sugar honey sauce comes in! Pour sauce over bars, wait a bit for the whole mess to cool. The blueberries can be hot juice bombs!
Enjoy!
Dawn of the Bed is a garden building event created by Growing Gardens. Raised beds were build by teams all across Portland, OR. It was a great day, tons of community activity, happy children, and fun. Everyone was working hard, rain and shine, to equip Shaver Elementary with some very nice raised beds. I was the Crew Leader for the team that built a handicap accessible bed. Go team! You guys are awesome.
More images of our productive day at flickr here.
My sister Lena participated in a permaculture design program with Little Artshram in Traverse City, Michigan. Below are some photos from the student’s presentations.
More photos here at flickr.
Kenji and I drew this, we had to glue two pieces of typing paper together for maximum awesome.
This dino is so serious about reading he has TWO pairs of glasses.
Woo hoo, let’s draw some kitties! I like the little one that’s high-steppin’ with moon boots on.
Here is my Oregon Coast Permaculture Immersion class wild forging for mussels and sea weed.
View more images here at flickr.
There is this awesome cafe/bar/music venue called The Strutt that I used to do graphic design work for before I moved to Portland. They are using the little rooster and baby chick logo I designed to unify all of their branding.
The logo was originally created for Strutt Records, a.k.a. Stutt Studios, a recording studio for community musicians.
The rooster and chick portion is now used in many of The Strutt’s endeavors: Strutt Records, Kalamazoo Coffee Company and the Boiling Pot music festival. It also is on all the posters printed for music events. The second image is a poster I liked designed by their new web and graphic designer JLS. You can view more posters at their website here.
