Projects

  • A Salt Apology

    Year: 2008

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

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  • Bitter Barter & Home Office

    Year: 2008

    Bitter Barter...What would you barter for a Bitter Melon?, and Home Office...A comforting contradiction: home office.

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  • Bitter Melon [A]side/[In]side

    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.

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  • Bitter Melon Homeopathy for Urban Renewal: Bitter is Better

    Year: 2006

    Also known as the Bitter Melon Seed Bomb Event was a public intervention project that invited interested growers to cultivate Bitter Melon plants in neglected urban spaces.

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  • Community Supported Agriculture: A share of Bitter Melon

    Year: 2006

    CSA: A share of Bitter Melon was a project to bring the experience of Bitter Melon to a random and diverse audience by distributing it through their individual farm shares and farmer’s market stands.

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  • Topsfield Fair and the NBMC Educational Exhibit

    Year: 2006

    The NBMC participated in the Topsfield Fair!

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  • Goya Honoring Day: ゴーヤの日

    Year: 2008

    Goya Honoring Day is a celebration of Bitter Melon. Goya Honoring Day (ゴーヤの日), a festival originating in Okinawa, Japan, is a special day to recognize Bitter Melon as a featured product of that tropical island (“Goya” is the term for Bitter Melon in Okinawa dialect.) and a popular ingredient that some even suspect is the secret to the Okinawan longevity.

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  • Meyers-Bitter Survey

    Year: 2009

    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.

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  • Bitter Melon Week

    Year: 2005

    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.

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  • 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).

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  • 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.

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