Food & Drink

Jam porn on display at the Museum of Vancouver’s Home Grown exhibit

Explore local farming through Vancouver photographer Brian Harris's food-focused photo exhibit, and enter for a chance to win a MOV prize pack!

By Michael Robertson /

Credit: Brian Harris

Museum of Vancouver’s Home Grown art exhibit includes a communal wall of preserves.

Always wanted to be in an art exhibition but didn’t want to pose naked for Spencer Tunick?

 

 

This week sees the launch of Vancouver photographer Brian Harris’s large-scale photographic exhibit Home Grown: Local Sustainable Food. Brought to you by the letter M, O and V (the Museum of Vancouver) and in association with Farm Folk/City Folk, the exhibit captures the current momentum behind local food production and urban agriculture in BC.

 

Harris’s large-scale photographs—ranging from proud inner-city gardeners to aerial views of an industrial-scale sustainable hothouse—introduce visitors to the people behind local food while exploring alternative styles of food growing.

 

Home Grown at the MOV

www.museumofvancouver.ca

1100 Chestnut St, Vancouver

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Home Grown runs August 26, 2010 through January 2, 2011

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The Home Grown exhibition will also feature a Communal Wall Of Preserves, for which the community is invited to contribute preserved fruits, veggies and other canned delights. After the exhibit is completed, the preserves will make their ways to good causes.

 

Bring your pickled peaches, your juniper jam or you chocolate-and-chili chutney down to the MOV’s front desk. Label the jar with the type of preserves it contains, where the fruit or vegetables were grown, your name and the date you made the preserves, and mark it to the attention of Joan Seidl. Jars can be no taller than 11 inches high.

 

Win free tickets by sharing your story

[Update, October 4, 2010: This contest is now closed. See the results!]

 

Granville Online is offering a MOV Prize Pack for the most interesting story about preserves. Share your anecdotes in 250 words about: the oldest jar in the family? The last preserved peach? Grandma’s secret recipe? A day of canning with friends?

 

The MOV prize pack includes:

* 2 memberships (giving access to all exhibits and opening nights for 1 year)

* Personalized tour of the museum collection

* A $20 gift voucher for a bottle from distributors of Artisan Wines