Cleveland Botanical Garden – Kristen Baumlier

This past weekend, Food Font was at the RIPE! Fest at the Cleveland Botanical Garden in Cleveland, OH. In the sun, rain, and hail – people stopped by to make letters out of local produce. On Saturday, two alphabets were made; one out of cucumbers and one out of broccoli and cauliflower. The cauliflower that we used is yellow and is called “cheesy broccoli” – but no cheese is involved. On Sunday, it was string beans all the way; a uppercase and lowercase alphabet was made out of yellow and green string beans. Some of the alphabets we made used the Spanish alphabet checklist – so we made some letters with accents also – so the alphabet can be used for English or Spanish

The vegetables were from Schwartz Fruit and Vegetable Farm which is located in Chesterland, OH. Thanks again to Edible Cleveland for helping with the event and sharing a table with us!

The pictures from the event are posted on the Food Font Flickr site., and also can be viewed in the slideshows below.

Food Font event at the Ripe! festival at the Cleveland Botanical Garden in Cleveland Ohio on September 22-23, 2012.

People at the Event – Saturday

Broccoli/Cauliflower Alphabet

Cucumber Alphabet

People at the Event – Sunday

String Bean – Lowercase Alphabet

String Bean – Uppercase Alphabets

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RIPE! festival, Cleveland Botanical Garden September 22-23, 2012

Last week I stopped by the library at the Cleveland Botanical Garden (CBG) and learned about the upcoming sale of botanical art books, rare prints, and posters which is happening this Saturday December10th in the Eleanor Squire Library. Each year the library has this sale to help raise funds for CBG.

I got a sneak peak at some of the prints, which included some hand colored lithographs, some rare Mary Vaux Walcott prints and some original seed catalogue prints. Gary Esmonde, librarian explained to me that the Walcott prints are extremely rare. They come from a 5 volume set and are rarely split up, either as books or as individual prints.

I got a look at some of the smaller prints that are for sale which included some prints from the late 1800’s, and were various plants and flowers. You could see the plate marks on the print, and the fine lithograph lines lend a quality of detail only seen in prints. One of my favorite prints included a lithograph of a Picotee flower, which has lots of petals in an interesting arrangement.

Some of the books for sale have 30-40 prints inside of them (so you could split the book up later if you want a series of prints), and there are over 160 single prints that will be on display and for sale.

Want to buys some prints – or just take a peek at some interesting botanical prints and books? The sale is open from 10am-5pm, and is free with CBG admission.

For more information, call 216 707-2812 or contact librarian Gary Esmonde at [email protected].

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Prints from the CBG library

Links:

Cleveland Botanical Garden

Rare Print Sale @ CBG Information Event Page

Kristen Baumlier

Tag: Cleveland Botanical Garden

Alphabets made of String Beans, Cucumbers, and Yellow Cauliflower – Food Font at the RIPE! festival

Rare Botanical Prints on View and For Sale – Saturday December 10th