What's Growing in the Museum Garden

University of New Mexico agroecology students and community members installing the garden in 2019. The garden has been re-planted this year on the west side of the Museum.

A Garden

UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO LAND ARTS AGROECOLOGY STUDENTS

PLANTED THE GARDEN just west of the Sculpture Garden on Mountain Road in May. The installation, A Garden, is an earthwork and experimental project that was conceived, designed, and created by Land Arts of the American West and 7th regen, in conjunction with SeedBroadcast’s 2019 exhibition Seed: Climate Change Resilience. Land Arts of the American West artists designed concentric planting beds radiating from a central existing pine tree and seeded these with Middle Eastern and SW Asian heritage grains einkorn, spelt, Sonoran Wheat, and Cache Valley Rye as a winter cover crop. In the summer, local indigenous amaranth will succeed the grains. As an experiment, the garden employs two varying methods for production: dryland farming waffle gardens and drip irrigation beds. It also accommodates the shadow line of the building. The garden aims to be an area for artistic installation and future community engagement. This project is about possibility, variability, and engagement.

The plan includes dryland farming techniques and drip irrigation beds.