Projects

  • Better Living through Bitter Melon - A Manual and Our Office

    Year: 2011
    The National Bitter Melon Council wants you to understand of how to operate a Bitter Melon - properly. View this project

  • Meyers-Bitter Survey & Emograph

    Year: 2011
    Meyers-Bitter Survey is a yes/no question survey that applies examples and discoveries from the NBMC's own experiences, social-research, and events from the past year to further explore the emotion of bitterness and the concept of community, identity, and belonging. View this project

  • Promiscuous Production: Breeding is Bittersweet

    Year: 2010
    Promiscuous Production: Breeding is Bittersweet was an organic “farmden” (farm + garden) experimental effort to breed a hybrid variety of melon, a BitterSweet melon, which will explore meaning and melon-ness via the cross-pollination of “opposing” melons. View this project

  • Baltimore Project: I'm not Bitter, My Melon Is

    Year: 2009
    We invited people to take a balloon and walk around the city, tying it to a place that made them feel bitter. View this project

  • A Salt Apology

    Year: 2009
    A Salt Apology invited the community and public to participate in salting South of Market (SOMA), i.e. curing/preserving, reducing the bitterness of, or "apologizing for" the bitter places in the neighborhood that have arisen over the years View this project

  • Bitter Barter

    Year: 2008
    Bitter Barter asked visitors to assist the Council in our qualitative appraisal of the value of Bitter Melon through a system of bartering. View this project

  • Bitter Melon Homeopathy for Urban Renewal

    Year: 2006
    Bitter Melon Homeopathy for Urban Renewal: Bitter is Better was a public intervention project that invited interested growers to cultivate Bitter Melon plants in neglected urban spaces. View this project

  • Goya Honoring Day +2

    Year: 2008
    It is our 2nd Goya Honoring Day! View this project

  • NBMC Office

    Year: 2008
    Home Office A comforting contradiction: home office. View this project

  • Bitter Melon Aside/Inside

    Year: 2006
    Bitter Melon [A]side/[In]side was a 70 people-banquet event created for Grantsmakers in the Arts pre-conference in collaboration with P-Town Parties. View this project

  • Community Supported Agriculture: A share of Bitter Melon

    Year: 2006
    The project literally inserted Bitter Melon into daily life. View this project

  • Topsfield Fair Educational Exhibit

    Year: 2006
    The NBMC Educational Exhibit booth was installed in the Topsfield Fair, founded in 1818, which was the oldest agriculture fair in the United States. View this project

  • Goya Honoring Day

    Year: 2006
    Goya Honoring Day is a celebration of Bitter Melon. View this project

  • Bitter Melon Week

    Year: 2006
    Bitter Melon Week explored the idea of community and how community can be created through difference and foreignness using Bitter Melon as a featured ingredient. View this project

  • Bitter Sweet Tasting Event

    Year: 2005
    The National Bitter Melon Council conducted a survey using 2 curcurbits grown in the Berkeley Street Community Garden, a community garden located in Boston’s South End neighborhood in Boston, MA. View this project

  • Sifting the Inner Belt

    Year: 2005
    Sifting the Inner Belt was a year-long public art project that consisted of a series of performance interventions and performance-based research projects, which closely observed and examined, i.e. sift, the South End neighborhood with an emphasis on creating emotional, conceptual and physical bridges between the Boston Center for the Arts (BCA) and the Berkeley Community Garden (BCG). View this project