Museum of Contemporary Farming

The Museum of Contemporary Farming is an impossible project. What would you include and why?
#museumcontemporaryfarming

[Museum of Contemporary Farming @MofCFarming]

New posters by https://t.co/FuD7t7w53S We think @Oprah #Oprah #oprahwinfrey @MichelleObama #MichelleObama #brenebrown @BreneBrown will appreciate them. Made with young people in Ash Villa Acute Mental Health Unit. Lincs UK. Thanks @ace_national and @LPFTNHS

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Even though he’s been bringing us rural news & views for decades, John Craven remains a prime contender for the #MuseumContemporaryFarming (along with other journalists who spotlight farming) https://t.co/SmAvrIEoG9

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Reciprocity in rural communities. Definitely worth including in the #MuseumContemporaryFarming https://t.co/h5VdkV8jku

[Sally Gray @SallyGray31]

Conversation yesterday
“Straws making a good price”
“I’ll let my neighbour have it for same as last year, going to be a tough winter for livestock”
“That’s kind”
“Not really, his Dad lent my Dad the rent money in 77”

That’s farming!!

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Can you find... Kate Genever's artwork hidden in the stores @TheMERL? #YouCompleteMe

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So @shambashapeup just pipped Annie Larkins' #AnEggWithoutAChicken to the post! https://t.co/hhyJeoc0vh

[The Museum of English Rural Life @TheMERL]

So, if you had to pick one thing to include in the #MuseumContemporaryFarming, what would it be? (Twitter only lets us have 4 options - but you can also choose the dapple!)

[Museum of Contemporary Farming @MofCFarming]

being in tune... https://t.co/gLj86eiFB7

[The Museum of English Rural Life @TheMERL]

Weather is crucial to agriculture, and farmers have to make assumptions based on the weather. Alex’s suggestion for the #museumcontemporaryfarming is a national forecasting network based on farmers’ aching knees. A step up from hanging some seaweed outside your door...?

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We need another conversation for the relationship between the UK and Africa! https://t.co/N9ie87Kv69

[The Museum of English Rural Life @TheMERL]

Need some advice on improving your farm and increasing your yields? Ben has suggested the TV makeover programme ‘Shamba Shape Up’ for #museumcontemporaryfarming - which is hugely popular in Kenya and East Africa https://t.co/ldSt6waZnj @shambashapeup

[Museum of Contemporary Farming @MofCFarming]

Remembering this... from @lucysteggals on Thursday and her story of a grower selecting in the UK 1st for colour, 2nd for shape and 3rd for taste! https://t.co/tTehJBsmWw

[The Museum of English Rural Life @TheMERL]

Lucy has introduced us to the ‘dapple’ - double apple. Is it fact or is it fiction? Lucy has used the dapple to symbolise our relationship with apples, and our over-reliance on only 10 cultivators out of more than 3000 varieties...

[Museum of Contemporary Farming @MofCFarming]

Please see a couple of images from #museumcontemporaryfarming installation and evening event @TheMERL Here's to more intangible activity.

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Of course! essential idea for #MuseumContemporaryFarming thanks @Trade_WarLord https://t.co/drXZjpJ54o

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Things we don't like thinking about for #MuseumContemporaryFarming thank you @gbjbaanb https://t.co/HypDFIpqAO

[Andy 🗽 @oaedoel]

@TheMERL @GretaBertram A slaughterhouse. Even those of us who don't think meat is murder should be reminded of what the end product is, and how it gets to us. No sanitised version either, maybe a Halal slaughterhouse and Bismillah as those are so popular today.

[Museum of Contemporary Farming @MofCFarming]

.....eh? my brain hurts! #MuseumContemporaryFarming https://t.co/1fap1iniqc

[The Museum of English Rural Life @TheMERL]

But does an eggless egg have any less environmental impact than an eggful egg?

[Museum of Contemporary Farming @MofCFarming]

Wow. Annie extensively researched making #AnEggWithoutAChicken revealing some of the bonkersness of contemporary farming and our obsession with certain foods for #MuseumContemporaryFarming https://t.co/aPXdJvESyP

[The Museum of English Rural Life @TheMERL]

Annie - an egg without a chicken?! We currently produce 35.3 million eggs a day in the UK, but do we need chickens to do that? There are plant based alternatives and cellular alternatives - but how do you get it to look and feel (and taste) like an egg?

[Museum of Contemporary Farming @MofCFarming]

#MuseumContemporaryFarming brilliant commentary on our fraught relationships with food and art @laurachops - receipt should definitely be acquisitioned perhaps by a real museum @TheMERL https://t.co/FqxBFxQKoK

[The Museum of English Rural Life @TheMERL]

They’ve been trying to ‘grow’ a loaf of bread from scratch, including a wheat field on wheels, wearable quernstones, and a harvesting and baking briefcase. Laura has costed her load of bread - over £500 per slice!

[Museum of Contemporary Farming @MofCFarming]

fabulous idea, commitment to growing and beautiful toolkit last night @laurachops @espergaerde #MuseumContemporaryFarming https://t.co/xM1XZrbzZM

[The Museum of English Rural Life @TheMERL]

Laura and Phil have suggested ‘portable wheat solutions’ for the #MuseumContemporaryFarming - but were disappointed that we wouldn’t let them eat the bread they’d brought in the museum stores!

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So excited these babies are up... https://t.co/kdfg04ZQCY

[The Museum of English Rural Life @TheMERL]

Artist-Farmer Kate Genever’s beautiful drawings are based on the theme of improvisation, using sticks to scratch away the surface and create dazzling images #museumcontemporaryfarming

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Eek! #MuseumContemporaryFarming https://t.co/H6a7C8YT8b

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powerful and political #MuseumContemporaryFarming https://t.co/cmscMFAGfr

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Eek! https://t.co/H6a7C8YT8b

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powerful and political submission last night thank you @JulietandBadger! https://t.co/cmscMFAGfr