A preview of the upcoming Art in Agriculture lecture with artist and architect Fritz Haeg. Just click on the button below to listen or check us out on iTunes!
Drop by my parents’ house and one thing that has to strike you right away. The lawn looks like a putting green. Drop around back and visitors are treated to gardens that look straight out of the pages of a magazine. A green thumb is not something I inherited from my folks. My own lawn is not quite hopeless, but if I can manage to maintain it well enough to avoid angry stares around the neighborhood, that’s a victory for me.
All of which makes the upcoming Art in Agriculture lecture of particular interest. The Auburn University College of Agriculture, College of Liberal Arts, and Department of Art have teamed up to bring artist, architect, gardener, and activist Fritz Haeg as the spring 2010 E.T. York Distinguished Lecturer. Haeg’s book Edible Estates: Attack on the Front Lawn is about to be released in its second edition. It describes eight projects where Haeg has worked to transform domestic front lawns into edible landscapes.
Now, personally I have threatened on more than one occasion to buy a goat and let it take care of my lawn, but a lawn that I can graze through myself? That has possibilities!
The Art in Agriculture series presents Fritz Haeg’s lecture “Welcoming the Wild” at the Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art on Tuesday, March 23 at 7:30 p.m.
– Kelly Walker
