Portable Orchard Feast | Whitney Museum Staff Celebration

Whitney staff recently participated in a feast with the fruits from Portable Orchard inspired by The Harrison's original 1972 feast. Survival Piece #5: Portable Orchard is live until January 5th. 

"To survive as a species, we are going to have to learn how to grow our own food and take care of ourselves at one point or another. So we started looking at what that means."—Helen Harrison.

Survival Piece #5: Portable Orchard is a project conceived and designed in 1972 by artists Helen Mayer Harrison and Newton Harrison that explores the need for a productive and sustainable food system in an imagined future where natural farming practices are obsolete and cannot be taken for granted. The Whitney's installation of the work consists of 18 live citrus trees rooted in self-contained planters on the Museum's eighth floor.