Oct 7, 2026 · 53 min · 14 segments
How does an individual, collective and community transform in tough times? Kelly and Tara talk about how infrastructures of care can transform individuals and their relationships with the world. This…
Kelly DombroskiGuest
Tara BrabazonHost
And I first came across it when we were researching for the previous work on life in vacant spaces.
And we were, my colleague Graydon Diprose and myself were walking around inner city Christchurch, visiting all the temporary activations that have been enabled by life in vacant spaces for a previous project.
And as we just sort of heard about this urban farm, so we thought, oh, we'll walk by and have a look.
And then we walked by, and it was just such this beautiful kind of oasis of vegetables in the city, just rows and rows of greens.
I think it was drizzling, and we were wearing raincoats, and we were walking around.
And we just kind of looked through the fence, and there was a couple of guys there.
And we're like, oh, what do you guys do here? And then they just started talking to us about what they were doing.
And one was a social worker who turned out I had like he'd been kicked out of school.
So it was one of those typical New Zealand connections where, so he'd been a troubled youth.
And then they had like this composting toilet and then they had all of these vegetables and they were explaining to us, this is what we do.
They kicked around in the dirt and you could see the dirt actually had food waste under it.
So they basically built up 50 centimeters of soil from food waste and then we're planting into it and making compost with bark chips and, you know, making this, this sort of making the soil actually.
And I first came across it when we were researching for the previous work on life in vacant spaces.
And we were, my colleague Graydon Diprose and myself were walking around inner city Christchurch, visiting all the temporary activations that have been enabled by life in vacant spaces for a previous project.
And as we just sort of heard about this urban farm, so we thought, oh, we'll walk by and have a look.
And then we walked by, and it was just such this beautiful kind of oasis of vegetables in the city, just rows and rows of greens.
I think it was drizzling, and we were wearing raincoats, and we were walking around.
And we just kind of looked through the fence, and there was a couple of guys there.
And we're like, oh, what do you guys do here? And then they just started talking to us about what they were doing.
And one was a social worker who turned out I had like he'd been kicked out of school.
So it was one of those typical New Zealand connections where, so he'd been a troubled youth.
And then they had like this composting toilet and then they had all of these vegetables and they were explaining to us, this is what we do.
They kicked around in the dirt and you could see the dirt actually had food waste under it.
So they basically built up 50 centimeters of soil from food waste and then we're planting into it and making compost with bark chips and, you know, making this, this sort of making the soil actually.
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