Kultivator is an experimental cooperation of organic farming and visual art practice, situated in rural village Dyestad, on the island Öland on the southeast coast of Sweden. By installing certain functions in abandoned farm facilities, near to the active agriculture community, Kultivator provide a meeting and working space that points out the parallels between provision production and art practice, between concrete and abstract processes for survival.

In connection to the “Wedding Between Art & Agriculture” in 2010 we planted Azolla in the newly dug out pond at Kultivator. The Azolla grew very well in the pond and Kultivator harvested many wheel barrows of Azolla. Some of it we offered to animals on the farm to see if they had any interest in it as fodder. We also grew some Azolla in a more controlled separate cultivation next to the pond, which we harvested Azolla from for cooking Azolla soup for the guest at the wedding to taste. The Azolla soup got a very muddy color, but tasted ok, much thanks to the vegetable bullion it was cooked with.