the land developed a vegetable plot and an earth oven in the excavation pit on the grounds of REST. Where geo-archaeology reads the soil to understand what was once left behind, food shows how ground can be worked and shared anew today. the land has designed a workshop-dinner of guided, collective prep, in which the long path from seed to plate becomes visible. Throughout the afternoon participants are guided in two groups in the development of different aspects for the dinner and to engage with the works of the Muddy Minds exhibition. In the evening everybody gathers for a bountiful dinner, and a moment to reflect on the traces we collectively leave in the past, present, and still to come.

the land is an agricultural and social experiment that weaves together agro-ecological and community-building practices. The majority of the food grown on their 1400m² plot is not sold, but used in the workshops, dinners, and events they host in and around Amsterdam. Building relationships through and around food is central to their practice: these bonds strengthen with every possible tactility. Their name, deliberately without capital letters, stems from commons-based theory and a desire not to claim ownership of the land they farm, but rather to represent this as a project intended to be communally tended.

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