As if I couldn't get over-excited enough about a regular year of seedlings, the honorable Heart of The Beast Theater landed on "Our Common Treasury" (dirt) as the theme for Minneapolis' May Day Parade.
The resulting "Sprout" section of the parade sent out a call for seedlings to be carried through the heart of Minneapolis and distributed to anyone in the crowd of thousands who would plant them.
Coincidentally I had decided to take a rare year off from helping with the May Day workshops (in which hundreds and hundreds fill the HOTB theater - gutted just for this purpose for one month and tranformed into a giant art studio for the people - to make papier mache and cardboard puppets and costumes from small to gargantuan in the month of April. It makes my heart swell just to remember it.) So these (below) became my contribution (kale, plus a few peppers and maters). There they are waiting for the car-ride to meet their destiny, and then nestled in a rapidly-filling room next to the workshop the night before, where I helped label seedlings and covered plastic containers with brown paper:
and the seedlings on parade (one of many boats, carts, and wagons-full), cheered on by spring-hungry Minnesotans:
The resulting "Sprout" section of the parade sent out a call for seedlings to be carried through the heart of Minneapolis and distributed to anyone in the crowd of thousands who would plant them.
Coincidentally I had decided to take a rare year off from helping with the May Day workshops (in which hundreds and hundreds fill the HOTB theater - gutted just for this purpose for one month and tranformed into a giant art studio for the people - to make papier mache and cardboard puppets and costumes from small to gargantuan in the month of April. It makes my heart swell just to remember it.) So these (below) became my contribution (kale, plus a few peppers and maters). There they are waiting for the car-ride to meet their destiny, and then nestled in a rapidly-filling room next to the workshop the night before, where I helped label seedlings and covered plastic containers with brown paper:
and the seedlings on parade (one of many boats, carts, and wagons-full), cheered on by spring-hungry Minnesotans:
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