Semi-natural grasslands — including meadows and pastures — are among the most biodiverse ecosystems, yet today they survive only in small, fragmented patches due to widespread human activity and land use focused on productivity. As meadows continue to shrink, preserving their rich biodiversity becomes increasingly vital.

MEADOW QUILT is an eco-social engagement workshop that takes place in Riga and Arhus. The workshop invites participants to symbolically take stewardship of a meadow plant through a series of guided activities. Together, we craft a collective quilt using an innovative biotextile made from cereal roots, interwoven with wild plant seeds collected by the Latvian Nature Foundation. The participants are invited into a meditative and collective process of reflecting on plants, seeds, soil, root systems, and the intricate relationships that biodiversity entails. The embodied nature of the workshop allows participants to engage with these complexities in an intuitive way. At the end of the workshop, the living textile is placed into the landscape, where it is left to naturally decay and gradually transform into a meadow. The workshop is suitable for all ages, but we ask adults to accompany their children in the process. Participants can stay for the whole duration or just join for a while.

The Meadow Quilt workshop was organised across two events: the Meadow festival (2024) organised by Latvian Fund for Nature in Riga, Latvia and the Rooted festival (2025) in Aarhus, Denmark.

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