Gardening, Foraging, and Prep — Food Photography by Meech Boakye
Issue No. 6: Food, Nutrition, and Access in Our Communities
Photography - Meech Boakye
Meech Boakye explores practices of gardening, foraging, and preparing food both as a form of communal care and as a medium to question the ordinary.
Ayocote Morado beans
cooking in a broth of red onions, garlic, bay leaves, rosemary and one dried guajillo chili.
Homemade ricotta on a beet pesto babka loaf sitting beside some farmer’s market grape tomatoes, and a jammy egg.
Radicchio and sweet potato salad with a side of fluffy pitas, fig jam, goat cheese and chopped pistachios.
Onion and garlic scraps alongside carrots, celery, and a couple of bay leaves about to be veggie broth.
Spirulina and turmeric sourdough discard crackers.
Dried herb sourdough discard crackers topped with fresh sage, parsley, oregano, zinnias, pansies, nasturtium, and chamomile leaves from the garden.
About the Artist
Meech Boakye is an artist and writer based in Portland, OR. Boakye's practice engages in collaborations with multispecies kin ranging from biomaterial research to digital gardens to fermentation workshops. Holding a Bachelor of Arts in Visual Studies from the University of Toronto, their work has been published in C Magazine, The Globe & Mail, Hard Pack Magazine, among others. Boakye was named one of Everpress's Artists to Watch in 2022, also receiving a Make|Learn|Build award from the Regional Arts & Culture Council that same year.
