Food, Memory and Place

The Mr Seel's Garden project I was involved in earlier in the year and which I am now documenting for my Permaculture Diploma was a dream project for me bringing together the themes of food, narrative and community. Looking particularly at the part that food plays in our relation to place and the people we share that place with.

This project took place in Liverpool which is a city with particualrly fascinating food heritage. In revisiting my notes to write the project up for my diploma I was reminded of the wonderful pictures that we had found as Mr Seel's Garden developed and thought that they were so lovely that it would be a shame not to share some of them here with you.

Cazneau Street Market

A cowkeeper outside their dairy in Central Liverpool - urban dairies were a unique feature of the urban food infrastructure in Liverpool

A potato hut in Everton

A Liverpool milkman

Joynson's Market Garden after it closed

Comments

[Liz]

I love the milkman too! Liverpool was unique in having urban dairies, greatly improving health through access to milk and calcium in poor communities. Genius solution to a food challenge! :)

[Jo]

Wonderful photos. I love the one of the milkman, we don't have milkmen at all here now, the supermarkets are taking over everything, such a shame.