Soil Kitchen imagines a kitchen where we are trying and failing to make soil. The work presents a series of objects where we are starting from rock, water, air and time and trying to transform this into one of the most complex substances in the universe. 

Using kitchen tools from our daily lives, the work playfully represents the epic natural flows in a small everyday way - using the kitchen as a simple way for young and old to understand a little of what makes up the infinitely complex substance that feeds and sustains us.

Such is nature's brilliance and power that it makes soil without tools and without humans - and the processes shown here only scratch the surface of the thousands perhaps millions of interactions - known and unknown - that lead to a healthy soil. 

One day we hope that Something & Son’s kitchen, with processes honed with the help of experts from Kew Gardens, could make a small amount of low quality and artificial soil. Now imagine - the big kitchen called Earth - beneath your feet and above your head - that with the immense energy, power, an expanse of time and a beautiful dance of weather, organisms and tectonics cooks up millions of tonnes of soil, all whilst we sleep - without a kitchen appliance in sight.

Alongside the experimental soil kitchen is a canteen of soil solutions, recipes for renewing soil such as biodynamics, biochar, half moon technique, bokashi, green manure and perennial vegetables and crops.

Article in the Guardian