Food Studio / losæter
We have always believed that the best way to learn is by experiencing. That´s why we took a day out in the field, to experience the circle from field to fork, from grain to bread and from food waste to soil.
Visitors to the urban agricultural collective Losæter in Oslo are guaranteed to have a special experience. You´ll meet farmers with deep roots to the land working with soilless city dwellers, artists connecting with chefs and children experience food made from freshly picked vegetables. Losæter is where the diversity of ecology and culture come together in the heart of old Oslo.
We believe that we all need to be ambassadors of food empathy if we are going to change the food system and the challenges we are facing today. By Food Empathy we mean the essential understanding of what food is, where it comes from and the journey it has undertaken, the resources spent from sun, soil and grass, how it enriches not just our souls, but how our bodies are made and nourished and how it finally returns to nature when we throw it away or digest it. In short, an understanding of the great wheel of sustenance and how it comes full circle.
We had the honor of working with National Geographic this summer at Losæter urban farm in Oslo. Together we hosted two groups of teenagers travelling from America, all of whom are aspiring photographers, cultural anthropologists and journalist.
WWOOF is a worldwide movement bringing people to a more sustainable way of life. By linking volunteers with organic farmers and growers to promote cultural and educational experiences based on trust and non-monetary exchange, thereby helping to build a sustainable, global community. This summer Linda Bovo and her friend Davide Carminati joined our first season at Vefall Neset farm in Drangedal as Wwoffers.
Denne sommeren var vi så heldige å huse Astrid S på Losæter og servere "jord til bord" pizza for henne og noen veldig heldige utvalgte fans.
« Where you tend a rose my lad, a thistle cannot grow. » Francis Hodgson Burnett. To awaken your imagination, I’ll begin this piece with a brief recount of the story of ‘Mary Mary Quite Contrary’ in Burnett’s 1911 children’s classic The Secret Garden. The protagonist, Mary Lennox, is a sickly, ill-tempered young orphan who is sent to the Yorkshire countryside to live with her estranged uncle, Master Craven, a reclusive hunchback who is paralyzed by grief after the loss of his wife.
One of the most important things we do is connecting people to the soil. This evening Losæter in Oslo, we hosted Afroz Shah who is connecting people to the ocean through his work with the worlds largest beach cleaning project in Mumbai, India.
“Are you ready?” asks the artist, with a sculpture shaped like an animal head over her shoulders. “Yes. Let´s go, then”, replies the baker, carrying a backpack constructed from wood filled with seeds, sourdough bread and some naan. They are followed by four other “carriers of bread”, the artist group, Futurefarmers, and the baker, Emmanuel Rang. They start the walk from Losæter – an urban agricultural site in the middle of Oslo–to the peri-urban farm of Johan Swärd.
Bakelauget på Losæter satte brøddeig kvelden før, og har brukt dagen til å fyre opp i bakeovnen, slik at vi alle kan nyte nybakt brød til måltidet. Jentene fra JobbUng Løkka har lært seg å lage chapatti, som de nå steker på den vedfyrte takken inne i bakehuset.