ERBA hosted a gathering around food, storage and foraging at REST in Friesland.The food studio ERBA – Suzanne Bernhardt and Philipp Kolmann – travelled in the summer of 2025 through the Frisian Landscape with Reizend Atelier of VHDG collecting stories of grasslands in transformation, also at REST. In ERBA's  exhibition Amino, Anima, Umami at VHDG in Leeuwarden, they presented these stories through a series of works. About the building blocks of our food, fermentation in ceramic vessels, the interconnectedness of humans, plants, and animals, and woolen blankets as carriers of recollection about the Frisian landscape and new life. These works guided us during this event. Together we will store a landscape, taste time, become a herd.

The winter after the ceramic vessels were filled with traces of the landscape: soy bricks absorbing the barn’s microbiome and the last seasonal greens tucked together with stories of preservation. In the spring of 2026 the vessels will be unpacked to see what has changed: their textures, colors, scents, and tastes. The contents will be transferred into smaller containers and the vessels will be prepared for their next cycle of transformation. This process is accompanied by a lunch. ERBA will cook using seasonal elements, offering a tasting that moves across different times and places. Alongside the practical actions of opening and preserving, we explore the relation between clean and hygiene, understood not as the removal of all life, but as a situated practice of care, coexistence with microbial worlds, and the notion of collaboration as opposed to control.

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