EXTREME SALAD WORLD is a biodiversity-maximizing kitchen garden that is unreasonable: packed with as many raw, edible plant species as can possibly fit into a small urban park.
Inspired by near-Arctic gardener Stephen Barstow’s legendary 200+ ingredient salads, the garden rejects monoculture and efficiency in favor of vegetal hedonism: an overload of perennial and unconventional plants eaten raw, turning the city into a site of extreme cultivation and flavour.
Visitors can harvest and prepare salads at the garden, tasting a wide spectrum of seasonal colors, textures, and flavors—bitter, sweet, crunchy, juicy, spicy—experiencing biodiversity through the senses. Drawing on Barstow’s research into perennials, edible ornamentals (“edimentals”) and unconventional cultivars, Extreme Salad World demonstrates how dense, edible ecosystems can thrive in urban space while regenerating the soil over time.
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EXTREME SALAD WORLD is an evolution of the Genomic Gastronomy Garden and is hosted by Zone2Source.
To learn more about he Journey to…Extreme Salad World (2010-2026 & 2024-2026) see this blog post.
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