Jeu Banquet d'érablière Live Dining - le 20 mars 2010 de 14h-16h avec 85 enfants des Samedi ensoleillés

l'Érablière urbaine est un projet de InTerreArt

le 20 mars, 2010, à l'érablière urbaine

Durant "Jeu banquet live dining", en-dessous de la seule épinette au parc Beaudet, Speranza S. (membre du CA de InTerreArt) et un groupe d'enfants goûtent au boisson d'épinette,

photo Nicole Fournier


photo Nicole Fournier

Jeu Banquet d'érablière «Live Dining» de l'artiste Nicole Fournier, mettant en valeur les arbres sur le site, l'érable et l'épinette, source de nourriture et lien à nos cultures multiples, avec Dégustations de breuvages Marco: bouleau, érable et épinette et beurre d'érable sur bagette!



La bière d'épinette vient de la culture autochtone; c'est une recette transmise par les autochtones aux européens, qui est devenu une tradition Québécoise. Les familles fesaient leur biere d'épinette chez eux, avec l'arbre épinette sur le terrain. Je parlais avec un monsieur d'environ 70 ans à l'érablière urbaine le 16 mars, l'après-midi de l'ouverture, et il me racontait comment son père fesait de la bière d'épinette dans leur cours à Saint-Laurent. Il s'en rappelait. À l'érablière urbaine, il a un arbre épinette, qui sera un des deux lieux du Jeu Banquet d'érablière Live Dining. Voici ci-haut une image de l'installation, relation avec bière d'épinette avec le seul arbre épinette au parc Beaudet à Saint-Laurent.
(texte de Nicole Fournier)

Live Dining 2007 on the sidewalk in front of articule (artist-run centre)

Suburban Backyard Live Dining 2009 - harvesting from Live Dining chair, action by Wes

September-early October is now late summer.....













see up in right corner, small acorn squash...


October 5th, 2009 - harvesting performative action of squash flower and green beans by Wes Fournier-Bourgeois


in plate - bean to cook, green beans to eat, squash flower to eat - raw or cooked, evening primrose leaf to cook (like spinach), and woodsorrel (it looks like clover but is heart shaped)

photos by Nicole Fournier

PLANT WALK with Nicole Fournier and Monica Giacomin October 16th, 2009, 2:30pm MUCS

MUCS - Montreal Urban Community Sustainment http://www.mucs.ca/

Date: Friday October 16th, 2009
Time: 2:30pm-4:30pm
Location: Meet at MUCS at 2:30pm, then we will walk throughout NDG and Westmount, towards Marianopolis CEGEP
Instructors: Nicole Fournier, Monica Giacomin
Wild native edible and medicinal plant identification
Which parts of plants to harvest when
Uses: eating raw, cooking, fermenting into wines & vinegars, tinctures, infusions etc
Meditative exploration

http://www.montrealpermaculture.org/index.php/Fall_semester

Making herbal medicine - with Rudbeckia triloba and nettle (ortie)

Catherine Lanza digging action

from backyard live dining 2009, Catherine, Anne-Marie and Nicole dug up Rudbeckia triloba or brown eyed susan flower, for her roots (used like echinacea). This flowering plant, which attracts pollinators, great for a permaculture "garden" urban agricultural space, invaded my backyard this season. Only recently did i know why, it was telling me, "use my roots to make some herbal medicine". So we did. With all the viral flu warnings, we all catching cold as the cold comes upon us, the plants are saying here we are to help, as prevention to catching the viruses, as helpers in our health. Rudbeckia triloba tincture - chopping up the roots and putting them in a jar with vodka, helps for earaches it is said. (source http://plant-materials.nrcs.usda.gov/KSPMC/culturallysignificant.html ) as from the ethnobotany culturally significant plants


Brown-Eyed Susan has many uses in traditional herbal medicine: Some Native American tribes have used it as a poultice for snake bites, to make tea to treat colds and worms in children (Ojibwa), and as a diuretic (Manominee and Patawotomi). Additionally, tea made from Brown-Eyed Susan has been used as an astringent to wash sores and wounds, and juice from the roots has been usedas drops to treat earaches.


Monica Giacomin joined them, bringing nettle from her backyard, Catherine Lanza had also harvested nettle from Mont Royal. Catherine made tincture with the nettle and kept some of the fresh nettle to dry for infusion (herbal tea). Info from Monica and Nicole that nettle is good for arthritis and the endocrine system (thyroid).

Monica Giacomin's website for more info on herbalism http://herbsontheside.com/

Here are some photos of the digging action, cutting, preparing and making tincture (making herbal medicine)


Anne-Marie Lanza removing earth from rudbeckia triloba roots
photo by Nicole Fournier


Catherine Lanza, Monica Giacomin and Anne-Marie Lanza (cutting the roots), no drive way near street
photo by Nicole Fournier


photo by Nicole Fournier


close up of root tinctured
photo by Nicole Fournier


Anne-Marie Lanza, Nicole Fournier and Catherine Lanza
Photo by Monica Giacomin

new picts : Backyard live dining 2009 (click on title for more picts)

photo Wes Fournier-Bourgeois
august 30th 2009

photo Nicole Fournier
september 9th, 2009

photo Nicole Fournier
Mr Bee getting pollen from a Motherwort medicinal plant flower
september 2009

photo Wes Fournier-Bourgeois
August 30th, 2009

August backyard live dining 2009, with Jean-François Prost, Frank Nobert and Nicole Fournier. Also featuring backyard live dining furniture

August backyard live dining 2009, with Jean-François Prost, Nicole Fournier and Frank Nobert (seen in that order in pict below). Also featuring backyard live dining furniture from august going back from July. So the order of the images are present to past.

photo by Wes Fournier-Bourgeois
image of root to the left: from live dining chair 2009 - big root going to the sky, above the whole live dining furniture installation. This root seems to be the symbol of backyard live dining 2009
photo by Wes Fournier-Bourgeois
image of root of live dining chair 2009, with Jean-François Prost underneath, smelling evening primrose leaf or a bean or bee balm leaf (i cant quite remember)
photo by Wes Fournier-Bourgeois
photo by Wes Fournier-Bourgeois
photo by Wes Fournier-Bourgeois
photo by Wes Fournier-Bourgeois
photo by Wes Fournier-Bourgeois
photo by Wes Fournier-Bourgeois
photo by Wes Fournier-Bourgeois
photo by Wes Fournier-Bourgeois
photo by Wes Fournier-Bourgeois
photo by Wes Fournier-Bourgeois

photo by Wes Fournier-Bourgeois
photo by Wes Fournier-Bourgeois
photo by Wes Fournier-Bourgeois
photo by Wes Fournier-Bourgeois
photo by Wes Fournier-Bourgeois
photo by Wes Fournier-Bourgeois
photo by Nicole Fournier
photo by Nicole Fournier
photo by Nicole Fournier
photo by Nicole Fournier
live dining chair 2009 with big root going to the sky, above the whole live dining furniture installation. This root seems to be the symbol of backyard live dining 2009

photo by Nicole Fournier

photo by Nicole Fournier
photo by Nicole Fournier
photo by Nicole Fournier
close up of live dining table from 2008, transformed by overwintering, with branches with roots, attached with wire for structure for beans to grow on.
photo by Nicole Fournier
in foreground: live dining chair found by Massimo Zanasi from Sardinia Italy, in Montreal in 2008, transformed by squirrels as they used part of it for their nest, decomposition aided by overwintering 2008-2009. branches with roots attached, aiming at the sky, connected with wire to back of seat, by Nicole Fournier. In background: live dining table from 2008, transformed by overwintering, with branches with roots, attached with wire for structure for beans to grow on.

photo by Nicole Fournier

photo by Nicole Fournier
photo by Nicole Fournier
photo by Nicole Fournier
photo by Nicole Fournier
photo by Nicole Fournier
photo by Nicole Fournier
live dining furniture - the chair that Xavier Michaud-Beaulieu found, for live dining chair with corn growing as seat
photo by Nicole Fournier