OPEN CALL
Join The Garden of The Net-work
The Garden of the Net-work is a project by Rachel Pimm, The White House artist in resident.
Be part of a year of home grown medicine. Grow with us remotely and help us generate a Communal Apothecary Garden at The White House, and remotely in others gardens. We plan to transplant seeds/plants into the garden together later on in the year.
Through the summer and autumn there will be opportunities to make some medicinal preparations such as decoctions, teas, recipes, remedies, balms, soaps, syrups and pills according to ancient and modern apothecary and pharmacy recipes.
We will then explore ways to come together to enjoy the medicinal plants and remedies we have grown either in person at the house or remotely to share personal and ancestral stories of our relationships to growing these plants.
To be part of The Garden of The Net-work or find out more please get in touch with Charlie on whitehouse@createlondon.org.
We will send you regular mail with medicinal plants to grow at home; each with seeds, instructions, remedy recipes and information on these themes:
Clinical and Regulated - Skincare - Pain Relief - Anti Virals - Mental Health
We are also looking for your suggestions for medicinal plants to include in our Communal Apothecary and for any natural remedies you’d like to learn how to make and grow for. Please note we have a limited number of seeds and postal packs.
If you would like to be part of the conversation on plants and connect via grow activity towards a communal apothecary garden, by raising seedlings or by planting out or harvesting later in the year, please get in touch with us via email: whitehouse@createlondon.org
Rachel Pimm is exploring the garden as a site for artistic practice, research and remote communal activity. Connecting to The White House’s Beacon Garden and our communities through sharing regular conversations; documenting foraging, growing and cooking processes; and undertaking research into historical and current records of plants for material, medicinal, herbal and scientific use, especially when tasted through the mouth, or applied to or worn on the skin. Read more on Rachel’s residency page here.