The Paddies were first landscaped from a steep, deer-fenced but uncultivated section of land in early 2007, laid out with the rice farmers of the Japanese village of Toge, who were visiting Lawson Park as part of the Grizedale Arts Seven Samurai project.

We proposed the following democratic and discursive design approach towards the making of a shed, that would hold all the garden sundries, tools and bits and bobs needed for this large productive area of garden.

You can find out more about the project in the document ‘Recipe for a Shed’ within Studio Berman’s writings.