Imagine food, but without herbs and spices. Take one small step away from overseas shipping. Homegrown herbs taste better than the produced ones, just like the best tomatoes you ever had was always from someones garden, perhaps even your own. 

The importance of spices and herbs in our society reach beyond the main courses of the kitchen. Since thousands of years we have been using the plants as medicine, pigment, food preservatives and perfumes. For hundreds of years the spices were a sign of wealth, only the most fortunate could afford the exotic crops. The so called spice islands in south east asia were at unrest during more than two hundred years because of european countries interest to control the spice trade. Today we take the spices for granted with our

food and other products, but the trade routes are not very much different from the ones some three hundred years ago. What happens when we will not be able to ship these nowadays taken for granted but once precious and valuable crops to the other side of the planet?Why are we consuming herbs and spices brought here from the other side of the planet when we have the possibility to grow them ourselves in our very own homes? Today it might not be what they call economically reasonable to have your own small scale

herb farm, but in a few generations forward in time this might make perfect sense. I want to prove it possible to grow your own basil and thyme in Scandinavian households, not only as a side hobby for the sake of farming, but also to grow you own supply of the precious herbs used in the cuisine.

This product is not meant to substitute the spices we buy in the stores, but to plant an idea about the possibilities of self sufficiency.

Product Description

Spicery is the growing grounds for your kitchen herbs. It includes seedling incubators, pots of various sizes and storage containers for the dried herbs and spices. The pots and incubators sits in a pinewood frame making it convenient to move all plants at once to where the sun is, or to place it on the dinner table and pick fresh basil for the tomato soup.

Materials

Pots and jars: slipcased porcelain // Framework: pinewood rods // Incubators: 3mm glass and pinewood // Lids: 10mm cork.

Process Overview

This project is made without any digital tools. Pen, paper, wood, glass, ceramics, dirty elbows and blistered hands made it happen.