That was really fun.

For a couple of years now, the city of Reedsburg and the Wormfarm Institute (an arts incubator and working farm) have put on the Reedsburg Fermentation Fest in October.

The Fest is a “Live Culture Convergence.” For two weekends and the week in-between, it focuses on fermentation and cultures in the literal sense, and also fermentation and culture beyond the literal.

For example, there was a sauerkraut-making demo by Adrienne Fox of Powerkraut, a fermented-food business based in Viroqua. Powerkraut is delicious, made of organic cabbage and sea salt. You can buy it in places like Willy St. Co-op.

But the Fest also featured the Farm/Art DTour – a 50-mile loop drive dotted by installation art and performances. In other words, you drive around the corner and see giant art in the fields, or hanging from the trees. Or you see people sitting on hay bales, watching a performance of an original music/theater piece on the porch of an old house.

All the installations fit in. Katie Schofield’s Come what may installation, for example, was lovely and breathtaking. But it also merged with the landscape so well that I found it comforting. As if, “Ok, that’s what was missing. I’m glad it’s there now.”

I worked on the Fest’s website and some of the printed material. Good times.

The photos above, in order are of Breathing Room, by Laura Annis and Alexis Ortiz,
the Powerkraut workshop, and Come what may, by Katie Schofield.

More photos here, on my flickr page.