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What do arctic farmers dream about? What’s in a blood sausage (besides blood)? And how can the moon help you make sauerkraut? (*bonus norsk språk versjon tilgjengelig)

In ep1, we asked how our behavior today might affect the food eaten by X, a young woman living in the Arctic in 2068. In ep2 we begin our journey to the future by meeting Jenny and Helga Nordgård, two generations of women who have been producing food on their family farm in Northern Norway since they were children. Jenny and Helga talk about how farmers enjoy a ‘different kind of wealth’ and how women like Helga were once legally restricted from inheriting farms. They also express concern about the stability of the global food system in relation to climate change and how a growing demand for vacation homes is pricing out would-be farmers.

Anneli, Christine, Valentin and Marina of Ice-9 also reflect on their own connection to food production, from their grandparents’ gardens in New Jersey, USA to Voronezh, Russia, where Marina’s grandfather Nikolai reveals his experiments with making sauerkraut by the lunar calendar.

LINKS:

Join the hello X Culinary Club! By adding your recipes, hungers, and half-digested rumors on https://forum.hellox.me/c/make-food

On LUNAR SAUERKRAUT from forum.helloX.me

Well, I checked with a scientist friend (biologist and bioinformatics researcher Michael Thorne from the British Antarctic Scientific Study) and he checked the Scopus database and can’t find anything under ‘yeast and lunar cycles’ or permuations of those terms. Does this mean that there has never been any published research on the effect of the moon on yeast or other microorganisms?

There is a ton of anecdotal information about fermentation and the moon. https://adventuresinlocalfood.com/2010/10/07/sauerkraut-rising-tides-and-where-it-all-began/ and Nikolai, @serval 's grandfather in Russia, says his sauerkraut is definitely crunchier when made on or just before the full moon.

Here’s a Belgian brewer who’s selling Paix-Dieu beer on the strength of moonpower.

Here’s a (sceptical) article on how some people arrange wine tastings according to the lunar calendar. https://vinepair.com/wine-blog/moon-science-biodynamics-in-the-vineyard-and-in-your-glass/

Do you have any experience with fermenting by the moon? Shall we run some bread/beer/sauerkraut experiments?

respond on the forum! https://forum.hellox.me/t/sauerkraut-by-the-moon-lunar-phases-and-yeast/109?u=copopod

CREDITS

This story was produced by Anneli Stiberg and Christine Cynn with support from Valentin Manz and Marina Borovaya. Language support by Martha Otte.Special thanks to Jenny Nordgård and Helga Nordgård and the whole Nordgård family.Thanks to Marina Borovaya and her grandfather Nikolai.Sound recording/mix by Nathanael Gustin.hello X theme music byMetatag on Hel Audiohttps://helaudio.bandcamp.com/album/surrenderEpisode music byMetatagandArthurs. Høiby. Ritchie on Not ApplicableTom Arthurs – trumpet, flugelhornJasper Høiby – double bassStuart Ritchie – drums

http://www.not-applicable.org/?page_id=27

Hva drømmer arktiske bønder om? Hva inneholder blodpølser (i tillegg til blod)? Og hvordan kan månen hjelpe deg å lage surkål?

I episode 1 tok vi opp spørsmålet: hvordan påvirker oppførselen vår i dag maten til X, en ung kvinne som lever i Arktis i år 2068? I episode 2 begynner vi vår reise mot fremtiden med et møte med Jenny og Helga Nordgård, to generasjoner kvinner som har produsert mat på deres familiegård i Nord-Norge siden de var barn. Jenny og Helga snakker om hvordan bønder nyter en ‘annen type velstand’ og hvordan kvinner som Helga tidligere hadde restriksjoner når det gjaldt å arve familiegården. De uttrykker også bekymringer rundt stabiliteten til det globale matsystemet i forhold til klimaendringer og hvordan den økte etterspørselen for feriehjem kan utkonkurrere bønder.

Anneli, Christine, Valentin og Marina, vårt Ice-9 team, reflekterer over deres egne forbindelser til matproduksjon, fra deres besteforeldres hager i New Jersey, USA til Voronezh, Russland, hvor Marina sin bestefar, Nikolai, avslører hans eksperimenter med å lage surkål etter månekalenderen.

LINKS:

Join the hello X Culinary Club! By adding your recipes, hungers, and half-digested rumors on https://forum.hellox.me/c/make-food

On LUNAR SAUERKRAUT from forum.helloX.me

Well, I checked with a scientist friend (biologist and bioinformatics researcher Michael Thorne from the British Antarctic Scientific Study) and he checked the Scopus database and can’t find anything under ‘yeast and lunar cycles’ or permuations of those terms. Does this mean that there has never been any published research on the effect of the moon on yeast or other microorganisms?

There is a ton of anecdotal information about fermentation and the moon. https://adventuresinlocalfood.com/2010/10/07/sauerkraut-rising-tides-and-where-it-all-began/ and Nikolai, @serval 's grandfather in Russia, says his sauerkraut is definitely crunchier when made on or just before the full moon.

Here’s a Belgian brewer who’s selling Paix-Dieu beer on the strength of moonpower.

Here’s a (sceptical) article on how some people arrange wine tastings according to the lunar calendar. https://vinepair.com/wine-blog/moon-science-biodynamics-in-the-vineyard-and-in-your-glass/

Do you have any experience with fermenting by the moon? Shall we run some bread/beer/sauerkraut experiments?

respond on the forum! https://forum.hellox.me/t/sauerkraut-by-the-moon-lunar-phases-and-yeast/109?u=copopod

CREDITS

Denne episoden ble produsert av Anneli Stiberg og Christine Cynn, med støtte fra Valentin Manz og Marina Borovaya. Språkstøtte fra Martha Otte.Takk til Jenny Nordgård og Helga Nordgård, hele Nordgård-familien, Marina Borovaya og hennes bestefar Nikolai.Lydmix av Nathanael Gustinhello X kjenningsmelodi avMetatag på Hel Audiohttps://helaudio.bandcamp.com/album/surrenderEpisodemusikk avMetatagOgArthurs. Høiby. Ritchie on Not ApplicableTom Arthurs – trompet, flugelhornJasper Høiby – dobbel bassStuart Ritchie – trommer

http://www.not-applicable.org/?page_id=27

Welcome to episode 1 of the hello X podcast! Meet Christine, Anneli and Valentin, your hosts in imagining the lives of the future. The first segment tells the backstory of X and explains the concepts behind the larger project. Find out how X was born in 2011 on a beach (in Christine’s mind), and why she went from dramatisations of political violence in the past (and co-directing The Act of Killing) to asking scientists, artists, kids and listeners like you to collectively imagine X, a woman who will be born in 2045. (You can start by checking out the WRITE page on this website). Christine and Valentin talk about why they moved to Tromsø, Northern Norway, how much they love food and how these passions have been channeled into the key question of this year’s stories: how might human activity today (CO2, pollution, fishing, agriculture) affect Arctic ecological food webs and food culture for X in 2068?

Segment two introduces you to some of the members of the hello X creative team and their answer to the question: What does it mean to have a relationship with the unborn, or future people?

Segment three features environmental anthropologist Ann Eileen Lennert. Ann’s work features the stories of hunters from Greenland, whom she studied for many years while living in Greenland before moving to Tromsø and becoming the newest member of Ice-9. A big advocate of citizen science, Ann integrates cultural landscapes with natural science and talks about how science can be mixed with stories both old and new, and how stories can help answer natural scientific questions. She also introduces us to the Mother of the Sea.

This story was produced by Christine Cynn and Anneli Stiberg with support from Valentin Manz.

Special thanks to Marina Borovaya, Ismet Bachtiar, Leo Kay, Sigbjørn Skåden, Annika Wiström, Ann Eileen Lennert, and Kunuk Lennert.

Sound recording/mix by Nathanael Gustin.

Music by

Metatag https://helaudio.bandcamp.com/album/surrender

Fiium Shaarrk https://not-applicable.bandcamp.com/album/we-are-astonishingly-lifelike )

LINKS:

X2068 exhibition in Polaria science museum (earlier permutation of hello X… in Norwegian) https://www.itromso.no/kultur/2016/10/25/Festivalutstilling-med-fremtidsvisjon-13694893.ece

Ann Eileen Lennert

https://anneileenlennert.com/

Mother of the Sea background https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sedna_(mythology)

The book that inspired Christine’s description of the ‘sea inside our cells’

Other Minds: The Octopus, the Sea, and the Deep Origins of Consciousness. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2016, and Harper-Collins UK, 2017

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/mar/15/other-minds-peter-godfrey-smith-review-octopus-philip-hoare