The intelligence of nature assumes a new form here: a drawing. The hand, as you can see, is man’s: it springs from the desire to bring home a piece of that natural intelligence. That was the start of the vegetable patch, which has always been of primary importance to the families who live in the mountains: a summer‘s work for the winter’s food.
Now we have fridges, but not so long ago it was the soil of the cellars that kept cabbages and endives fresh, while legumes were dried and carrots were either buried in sand or processed into pickles and such.
What you see here is an experiment: a vegetable patch that lets us see how resistant some species are to high altitudes: some types of salad and cabbage, rye, wheat, the hybrid triticale - a cross between rye and durum wheat - and spelt.
