The Bulkhead Urban Agriculture Lab

The Bulk­head Lab

Grow will take up the ideas of com­mu­nity mem­bers, cre­ative prac­ti­tion­ers and inter­est groups to develop a cre­ative urban agri­cul­ture instal­la­tion com­prised of a series of plat­forms for grow­ing food.

Other Sights for Artist’s Projects has secured per­mis­sion to use a 10,400 sq. ft. plot near the pop­u­lar sea­wall walk­way called the bulk­head to install this green lab.  In many ways the bulk­head is a tran­si­tional zone.  It sits on the periph­ery of pub­lic parks, unde­vel­oped and bristling with rem­nants of the indus­trial past.

Tak­ing up the pro­vi­sional state of the bulk­head, Grow will use read­ily avail­able mate­ri­als such as wooden palettes, super sacks, and burlap to con­struct a series of five sculp­tural plat­forms for grow­ing root veg­eta­bles, leafy greens, herbs, fruit and mushrooms.

Pre-existing struc­tures in the bulk­head will be incor­po­rated into the over­all design of this sculp­tural instal­la­tion.  Rusted steel beams will become the sup­port for elab­o­rate hand­crafted net­ting which will sup­port the growth of scar­let run­ner beans, while the chain link fence will be grad­u­ally pop­u­lated with small pock­ets of green plants.  New struc­tures will also be intro­duced includ­ing a liv­ing wall co-created with the Envi­ron­men­tal Youth Alliance that will fur­ther extend the grow­ing plane vertically.