Blog transcript: Wormfarm

They’re artist-designed and built or artist- or architect-designed and built mobile food, produce vending stands that are made to be beautiful and visually compelling, whether they’re opened or closed. They can travel from place to place, so they’re not dependent on a single market. They can be little micro-entrepreneur mobiles. But they also have the ability or the specific mission to vend local art where allowed. I mean, we have found it’s much easier to sell carrots than it is to sell artwork, as far as zoning and licensing and things like that go. But if they can’t at least sell it, then each of these roadside culture stands has sort of an informational kiosk that will direct people to local art galleries, poetry or whatever. So this is a project that is in its third year now. We’re commissioning our third round of them. As we speak, they’re being built and we’re finding welcome homes for them. People are becoming very interested in using them, and so this is part of it too is that, not just having them built but finding the right community-based partner whose mission would be advanced by the use of the culture stand.