Peatland Feast 2030 is a longterm project spanning over six years time, initiated during my ‘Food Ecologies’ residency at Cove Park 2024. During these upcoming years, leading up to the feast in 2030, I will be researching and developing a body of work relating to the peatlands in Scotland and Sweden, its ecosystem and connection to our water and food sources.

The peatlands ecosystem stores an incredible amount of the world’s soil carbon, on a very small portion of the land’s surface. As mosses and plants decay, peat is slowly formed. The mosses that grow on the peatlands help filter out pollution from the air and water and form underground anaerobic conditions, ideal for preservation. It hosts a vital habitat for us all, most certainly not a wasteland.

At the end of my residency, I buried some selected foods (butter and cheese) in what is currently classified as peat soil on Cove Park’s land. An engraved slate stone marks the spot and acts as a physical invitation to join the upcoming public feast in 2030.

With this project I want to explore the importance of the peatlands and how it can provide a new perception of time.

This website is a work in progress, as I will be continously updating it with new research and documentation of the project.

/Josefin Vargö

A map of the peninsula where Cove Park is situated. Below the map filter specifies the type of soil on the peninsula. The map can be found here.