Spring Pruning Day
Getting to know the meadow starts with a day of collective tree pruning with Roman and Oliver from the municipal parks department together with staff from ZKM and close friends of the site.
Pruning is carefully and clearly explained as tree stewardship, where looking into the future and considering future use and needs slowly determine cuts. Objectiveness comes into play. . Does it look good? How tidy should the maintencae pruning be? Who in this inter-species relationship get prioritised? The mistle of the apple juice making ambitions of ZKM?
Fruit orchards are cultural landscape and arrive around 1820 in this area. The stewardship honours both the cultural tradition, and the interspecies relations and interdependence. Casual discussions about “Streuobstwiesen”often lead to the abundance of opportunities these orchards hold.
