The Cook, the Farmer, his Wife and their Neighbor

Harvest Day

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27 September 2009 from 10 am to 7 pm, Marjetica Potrc and Wilde Westen,

in collaboration with residents and the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam,

celebrate the Harvest Day/Oogstfeest.

The event is supported by Stedelijk Museum, Stimuleringsfonds voor Architectuur,

Stadsdeel Geuzenveld en Slotermeer, Koers Nieuw West, Far West.

Marjetica Potrc and Wilde Westen would like to thank residents of

Lodewijk van Deysselstraat 61 and

collaborators for their dedication to the project and for having

influenced it in positive and stimulating ways:

Aisha, Costa, Carlos Breton, Marina Breton, Elisabeth Dalen, Mostafa El Filali,

Eptsiam, Alfonso Estrada, Marcello Fantuz, Freestate SWOMP, Gerda,

Gionata Gatto, Henna, Marjolein Houben, Femke Janssen, José,

Christien Kop, Latifa, Wietske Maas, Mostafa, Ouardia, Praktijk school,

Roy, Taji the Chef, Wendy van Beeten, Rufus de Vries.

A special thanks goes to: Katie Bachler, Allison Danielle Behrstock,

Dasha van Amsterdam, Wapke Feenstra, Florian de Visser.

In the video protagonists of the garden and the kitchen of

The Cook, the Farmer, his Wife and their Neighbor,

during the Harvest Day, 27 October 2009. Photos © Sjoerd.

Opening 18 April 2009!

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The Cook, the Farmer, his Wife and their Neighbor

Project by Marjetica Potrč and Wilde Westen (Lucia Babina, Reinder

Bakker, Hester van Dijk, Sylvain Hartenberg, Merijn Oudenampsen, Eva

Pfannes, Henriette Waal)

Video was shot during the opening of the project, 18 April 2009, by Adolfo Estrada

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Toward the Harvest Day

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Waiting for the 27 September 2009: the Harvest Day,

in which we are going to celebrate the last day of the good season

and the beginning of a new season toward re-appropriation,

cultural re-making, redefinition of a social contract.

By waiting we are going to be busy with several events and workshops:

3 and 12 September Latin Sisters Design Production recycling workshop

5 September theatre workshop for kids with Marina Breton

19-20 September Wietske Maas will lead a group of pariticipants in fishing, hunting and cooking spontaneous autoctonous food. See all photos here.

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After the Opening!

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This is our house, this is what we started from: an empty garden and a kitchen.

In the window the project is announced.

Inside and outside residents are getting condifent with the place.

Opening time of garden and kitchen

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From now on the kitchen will be open from Wednesday to Saturday, from 12.00 to 18.00.

The garden will be open from Thursday to Saturday, from 12.00 to 18.00.

Every week activities and workshop of any kind are organized in the kitchen and in the garden.

Accordinigly the garden and the kitchen might extend the opening time.

In order to know more contact us (stadskweker@gmail.com, stadskok@gmail.com), check of course this website or the website of the Stedelijk Museum.

Our Gardener Roy

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Finally we found a gardener, his name is Roy.

He will be in the garden at leat three days a week.

On Thursday, Friday and Saturdy, from 12.00 up to 18.00.

He is really committed to the garden.

Kids harvesting

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From dreams to deeds

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How the garden is turning slowly to an eden garden with a lot of vegetables, such as tomatoes, zucchini, pumpkins, beans, green beans, potatoes, eggplants, peppers, paprika, radishes, cabbages, and also special Surinam vegetables.

Step 1.

The garden was empty and we devided it in pixels of 1 square meter each.

Each square meter costs 1 euro and residents can buy how many they wish.

Contract says that 50% of the harvest goes to the kitchen for collective initiatives.

Individual adults, group of kids, families are now involved in the garden.

Vegetables gardens amount to 30 units.

Step 2.

Saturday 2 May 2009, from 10.00 am onwards, we prepared the soil with residents

who applied for a pixel in the KKVB garden.

We digged the ground, we thought about what to plant.

We fenced the single vegetable gardens.

Praktijk school helped us a lot and planted themselves beans!
For more information and to get a pixel, contact Henriette Waal (stadskweker@gmail.com).

Step 3.

What we see now is a rich and blossomed garden

around which a nice community shaped up.

We hope for a long life!

What is happening in the kitchen

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The kitchen is our meeting point, a place where we people, and especially residents, drop by,
can have a coffee, spontaneously arrange lunch or dinner, organize a party, have gatherings.

It is also a laboratory where ideas can be epxerimented, shared and improved through workshops, discussions, events.

1. Kitchen is used informally by residents

Costa and Aicha, © Henriette Waal

Steunpunt women, © Lucia Babina

Katie and Elisabeth, © Henriette Waal

2. Workshops of cooking, such as Dora's Kitchen's workshop
(Surinam kitchen) and Taji's the Chef's workshop (Sushi).

Dora's Kitchen workshop, © Lucia Babina

Taji the Chef's workshop, © Taji the Chef

3. Workshops about hunting and cooking autochthonous food,
such as thistle, of Wietske Maas.

Wietske Maas workshop, © Henriette Waal

Wietske Maas workshop, © Henriette Waal

4. Workshop of permaculture and compost by Free State Swomp

Free State SWOMP workshop and Gerda, © Henriette Waal

Dora's Kitchen Workshop

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De kok, de kweker, zijn vrouw en hun buurman kookworkshop door Dora’s Kitchen
14 mei – 25 juni 2009
Lodewijk van Deysselstraat 61, Amsterdam

Manapua

Eten is een moment van verbroedering dat op allerlei manieren ingevuld kan worden.
Dora’s kitchen nodigt bewoners van West uit om samen te koken en kennis te maken met elkaar d.m.v. kookworkshops.
Rijst met kouseband of BB met R (bruine bonen met rijst) zijn de welbekende Surinaamse gerechten.
Dora wil u verleiden met door met u de multiculti Surinaamse keuken te bereiden en te proeven! Wekelijks zal er een menu samengesteld worden van verschillende tropische gerechten gemixt met lokale producten.
Wat dacht u van Boemboebali met Köftelik en tomaten-chutney of cassave stamppot!?
Wilt u kennis maken met de smeltkroes van de Nederlandse – Surinaamse keuken?
Schrijf u dan in voor de kookworkshops verzorgd door Dora’s Kitchen.
De kookworkshop is onderdeel van het project De kok, de kweker, zijn vrouw en hun buurman, een initiatif van Marjetica Potrc en Wilde Westen i.s.m. het Stedelijk Museum.
De kookworkshop zal elke donderdag vanaf 14 mei t/m 25 juni (21 hemelvaart gesloten) plaats vinden in de Lodewijk van Deysselstraat 61, Amsterdam, vaanaf 18.30 t/m 21.30.
Deelname is gratis.
Wij vragen een kleine bijdrage van € 5,- voor de ingrediënten.

U bent van harte uitgenodigd om mee te doen laat het ons wel uiterlijk 1 dag van tevoren weten
als u komt!

Programma

14 mei (18.30-21.30)
Manapua (groente pasteitjes); Masosa Moksi Alesie; Abrikozen - ananastaart

28 mei (18.30-21.30)
Gevulde Gourgette & aubergine met Küfke gehakt en Capati’s

4 juni (18.30-21.30)
Gritibana soep (maaltijdsoep); Kouseband met Rijst

11 juni (18.30-21.30)
Okra vissoep; Boemboebali met amsoi

18 juni (18.30-21.30)
Pindasoep; Gevulde kip met appeltjes uit de oven; Zandkoekjes met cashewnoten

25 juni (18.30-21.30)
BBQ

Contacts

Dora’s Kitchen
Elisabeth: +31613956459
dora@doraskitchen.nl
www.doraskitchen.nl

Wilde Westen
Lucia: +31643958164
of Dasha: +31621278298
stadskok@gmail.com
www.stedelijkindestad.nl
www.wildewesten.com

Cooking day!

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Wednesday 29 May 2009 at 12 in Lodewijk van Deysselstraat 61, more than 30 women are going to cook cous-cous and pinda sauce.
They visited already the kitchen with Lucia, Dasha and Christien Kop (Steunpunt Coordinator).

© Lucia Babina

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Before the Opening!

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More vegetable gardens in Slotervaart

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This vegetable garden is run by a collective of residents in Viveportenstraat (Slotervaart, Amsterdam). We are in good company!

© Lucia Babina

The vegetable garden of Mrs Unal

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Once upon a time there was a courtyard in Parmenidestraat (Amsterdam Nieuw West).

© Lucia Babina

In the courtyard there was the vegetable garden of Miss Unal...

© Wapke Feenstra

After some years Ymere, inspired by Miss Unal, took over and designed a new courtyard with many allotments. Miss Unal doesn't have her garden anymore, she has to inscribe in a waiting list!

© Lucia Babina

Talking about the project!

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Shirley Brandeis and Henriette Waal discuss about the project. Shirley is a journalist of the local newspaper Westerpost and is going to write an article the project to make people enthousiastic about the project and spread around the voice.

© Henriette Waal

Henriette Waal visiting Fatma Unal, our farmer

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Henriette Waal is now setting up the community garden together with residents. She is talking with them about their different experience in cultivating vegetables, in taking care of a garden, in handling tools.

© Henriette Waal

© Henriette Waal

First Year!

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Dora's Kitchen celebrates, 2 April 2009, its first year of activity. On this occasion Elisabeth (Dora's Kitchen) invited friends, relatives and Wilde Westen to cook and eat together in the big professioanl kitchen of Nova College in Geuzenveld en Slotermeer.
Look at some more pics!

© Lucia Babina

© Lucia Babina

© Lucia Babina

19-22 March 2009 KKVB design workshop

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The 4 days design workshop are aimed at designing and building the interior of the the Lodewijk van Deyyselstraat house. The Wilde Westen team (Eva Pfannes, Sylvain Hartenberg, Florian de Visser, Hester van Dijk, Reinder Bakker, Henriette Waal, Lucia Babina) and Marjetica Potrc work together to produce a kitchen, tables, benches and more. The interior is designed to be comfortable and welcoming. We are getting started!

The design folder of the KKVB house. © Marjetica Potrc

The house before our intervention. © Marjetica Potrc

Eva giving instructions to whom? © Marjetica Potrc

19-22 March 2009 KKVB design workshop

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We worked hard to make it happen. Especially Reinder, Hester, Eva, Henriette and Florian created a comfortable space equipped with a kitchen, tables and benches. Marjetica, Lucia and Emiliano helped out with the painting.

© Marjetica Potrc

Henriette messing it up with wires!?! © Marjetica Potrc

© Marjetica Potrc

Reinder and Hester creating the interior. © Marjetica Potrc

Henriette cutting wooden beams. © Marjetica Potrc

Eva drilling all day! © Marjetica Potrc

Tables are getting ready. © Marjetica Potrc

Florian has a new friend. © Marjetica Potrc

© Marjetica Potrc

Benches and stuff. © Marjetica Potrc

Lucia fooling at her bag! © Marjetica Potrc

Emiliano just made an attempt to paint. © Marjetica Potrc

Kitchen fits perfectly in our space. © Marjetica Potrc

19-22 March 2009 KKVB design workshop breaks

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From time to time we took a break. We ate on our improvised table and chairs and enjoyed the sun. Food was so so, but we are looking forward to eat delicacies of our cook-neighbours.

Fatma green beans. © Marjetica Potrc

© Marjetica Potrc

© Marjetica Potrc

© Marjetica Potrc

19-22 March 2009 PRs during the KKVB design workshop

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Thanks to the sun we could work mainly outside of the house. Many residents stopped by and asked us questions, kids helped us out. This is the beginning of our future network!

Meeting with the artist Wietske Maas. © Marjetica Potrc

Kids playing with us! © Marjetica Potrc

Our nextdoor neighbour Fatma talking to Henriette. © Marjetica Potrc

Fatma gave us her delicious Turkish green beans to taste. © Marjetica Potrc

19-22 March 2009 KKVB workshop space

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How the interior of our house in Lodewijk van Deysselstraat 61 looks like during the workshop.

© Marjetica Potrc

© Marjetica Potrc

19-22 March 2009 KKVB design workshop

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We finished our work a day in advance, we could go home.
We were all tired and freezing. The past 3 days have been fantastic, super nice weather but not yet spring time. We stopped, on our way, in Cream Club for a borreltje. Theo Haring organized a party by inviting people and organizations culturally active in Geuzenveld en Slotermeer.

Reinder closing the door. © Marjetica Potrc

We are going home! © Marjetica Potrc

Henriette leaving with her fantastic Solex. © Marjetica Potrc

Cream Club's garden. © Marjetica Potrc

Dinner at Wijkweb - Samen koken initiative

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Thursday 06.03.09 (Pluspunt, Albardakade 5-7, Amsterdam Nieuw West)

Our first dinner at the Wijkweb - Samen koken initiative. © Lucia Babina

Our 3 fantastic kids enjoying dinner with us
at the Wijkweb - Samen koken initiative. © Lucia Babina

Our Silvia van Eer, the cook of Wijkweb -Samen koken initiative. © Lucia Babina

21 February 2009 Public presentation of the project

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Henriette Waal and Lucia Babina presents the project before the audience of the Bouwkeet of the Stedelijk Museum and the public of the Blue House.