Public Jam and Edible Estates launch event 3/29

Make jam, not war -- by stopping by at the Museum of Contemporary Art this Saturday and joining the attack against the water-guzzling grassy front lawn!

To celebrate architect and artist Fritz Haeg's new book, "Edible Estates: Attack on the Front Lawn" -- as well as  the debut of Haeg's new serial project, Animal Estates, at the 2008 Whitney Biennial -- MOCA's throwing a book signing party -- complete with a Public Jam, aka a fruit jam-making session led by the Fallen Fruit collective.

When: Sat., March 29, 3 pm
Where: Art Catalogues, MOCA Pacific Design Center, 8687 Melrose Ave., G102, West Hollywood
What: Come ready to jam. Feel free to bring fruit to jam with.

First, the Fallen Fruit collective will collaborate with you in a communal jam-making session -- then the talk with Fritz Haeg and book contributors Lesley Stern and Michael Foti will begin. There'll be drinks and appetizers too.

Fritz Haeg's the founder of Edible Estates -- a series of projects aimed at turning stagnant front lawns into luscious edible gardens that are "responsive to culture, climate, context and people." According to MOCA's description:

These projects reconcile issues of global food production and urbanized land use with the modest gesture of a small domestic garden. Edible Estates is a practical food-producing initiative, a place-responsive landscape design proposal, a scientific horticultural experiment, a conceptual land-art project, a defiant political statement, a community out-reach program and an act of radical gardening.

For more de-lawning fun, check out Heather Flores' "Food Not Lawns: How to Turn Your Yard Into a Garden and Your Neighborhood Into a Community." Or join the Fallen Fruit collective people to forage for free urban fruit and make more jam.

Earlier: Apartment gardens and Q&A: A new green front yard