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We consume, eat, garden, harvest, cook, manipulate, breed, kill, poison and destroy. The cycles in agriculture and food production are complicated and sometimes absurd, our botanical inheritance is manipulated. We are witnessing sociological changes and lifestyle diseases brought by mass industry manufactured food production and consumption. All this seems to stand opposite to the growing desire for a natural world with regional, organic and artisan foods, the Slowfood and urban gardening movement and the preservation of biodiversity. All subjects seem discussed as independent, not related matters in the areas of agriculture, art, literature, science, health, education, philosophy and politics.
VITAL FORCES- FOOD IN CONTEXT is a think tank and event series exploring food culture as a cultural good in the past, present and future.  We seek to illuminate the connections and relationship of the diverse fields involved through the language of art in order to reach a larger audience outside the 'food bubble'.
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STarting a new chapter: FORGOTTEN TASTE

5/18/2017

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In this new chapter, we are exploring how day-to day groceries were and are used as life supporting and healing foods, how a lot of them disappeared from our menu and are now re-discovered along with the knowledge. "Weeds" were plants used for eating and healing, and when you get to know their appearance, you suddenly see so much more forests and grasslands.
 
What was the ecological significance of wild plants and herbs, in the history of medicine and science, or in our own kitchens or cultivated convent gardens? Connecting the topic with art, literature, philosophy or poetry, VITAL FORCES explores.

Great events and dinners to sign up for. Stay tuned!

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In times of war and post-war times, the ribwort leaves were used as salad and provided a source of vitamins.  You can harvest it from April to August and find it all over any grassland and  fields, next to nettles and dandelions. If you get nasty insect bites, you can levigate it and spread it on your bite. It has a soothing and cooling effect.


Plantago lanceolata

A species of flowering plant.

Family: Plantafinaceae
Other Names: English plantain, narrowleaf plantain, ribwort plantain, ribleaf and lamb's tongue
Wikipedia entry calls it a "weed" ! How sad!:
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It is a common weed of cultivated land"...., "It is considered an invasive weed in North America. It is present and widespread in the Americas and Australia as an introduced species."

Well, here in Germany, we eat it in our wild herb salads and I must say, they are delicious leaves! Further:

Ribwort contains several Iridoidglycoside, which are produced by plants act primarily as a defense against herbivores or against infection by microorganisms.
Here a few of the iridoids and their healing powers:
- Aucubin, was found to protect against liver damage
- Catalpol, stimulates the production of adrenal cortical hormones
- Organic silica, very important overall to strengthen our cellular connective tissue
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    Kit Schulte, founder and director SATELLITE BERLIN
    Nora Novak, photographer
    Inés Lauber, food designer


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