home grown

Agricultural Voices From Production to Consumption

We are eating from an increasingly narrow menu. Around 75% of crop diversity has been lost since the 1900s, while 75% of the world’s food now comes from just 12 plants and five animal species (FAO).

Food reaches us long before it arrives on our plates. It starts in the soil, in someone's hands, in knowledge passed down and care given freely, and it stays with us through the rituals of preparation, the weight of memory, the stories we tell at the table. This edition of Home Grown traces that arc, gathering voices who think deeply about agricultural ecologies from the ground up.

Through visual art, film, poetry, recipes, and personal testimony, our contributors ask how food systems shape the way we relate to land, to family, to culture and identity, to the places we call home. Some turn their attention to cultivation, to sustainability, to the quiet labour behind what nourishes us.

Others look inward, toward kitchens, inherited recipes, the journeys of migration, and the tender meanings we attach to what we eat. Home Grown presents these works ask us to look more closely at what sustains us, to honour who makes it possible, and to notice what we carry; from soil to self.

Pongsirirushakun, Y. (2026). บ้านตองก๊อ [Movie poster]. Independent production.

In a world where a child may recognise pizza, burgers or chips before they recognise the foods traditionally grown, cooked and shared within their own community...

what happens when we lose the knowledge of what grows around us and the stories that come with it?

Macedo, L. (2024). O Cheiro do Gosto [Photographic series].

Balseca, C. (2026). Ramita de Cedrón [Embroidery].

Home Grown celebrates our deep connection to agriculture, food, land and heritage. The stunning artworks are not only pieces to admire; they are stories of cultivation, tradition and identity, reminding us of where our food comes from and the people, places and practices that sustain us.

featuring 30+ artists from 15+ countries

Therefore, artists in this collection explore the complex relationships between food, farming, culture and heritage. They reveal how these elements are deeply connected; from the soil beneath us to the food on our tables, and from ancestral knowledge to the traditions we carry forward.

We are reminded that true growth is not only about producing more, but about nurturing what has been handed down to us, protecting our land and celebrating the roots that shape who we are.

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Alina Kurylo

lead editor

Alina Kurylo is a project coordinator, educator, and creative communicator with experience in youth-led initiatives, international collaboration, teaching, mentoring, and digital coordination. Her work centres on education, social impact, culture, and storytelling, with a particular interest in using visual narratives to explore identity, displacement, community, and lived experience.

She is also active in photography and filmmaking. Her short documentary Unchangeable received second-place and finalist recognition at the Laterna Magica Film Festival in Estonia, the Wicked Wales International Youth Film Festival in the United Kingdom, and the College Photographer of the Year Festival in the United States. Her creative work has also been presented in London, Vilnius, and Tallinn.

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Murshidul Bhuiyan

editor

Murshidul Alam Bhuiyan is a globally recognized social impact leader, storyteller, and youth empowerment advocate who has dedicated 10+ years to bridging cultures and catalyzing positive change across 81 countries. As founder of Team Bertho since 2016, he has built a youth-led platform reaching millions through innovative storytelling, education reform, and community development initiatives.

Murshidul has received over 45 international honours, including The Diana Award, Bloom’s 30 Under 30, and the UNICEF Meena Media Award. He is also the author of Fueling Hope. Beyond Team Bertho, he founded Daak Chithi, leads Million Peacemakers, and serves as an ambassador for several global initiatives, all driven by his vision of building a more empathetic world.

Instagram: @murshidulalambhuiyan

Ally Zlatar

director

Ally Zlatar is an artist, scholar and activist. She is the founder of The Starving Artist; an artist initiative that utilizes creative voices as a way to create advocacy and systemic reform. She also founded The Starving Artist Scholarship Fund which helps people access inpatient mental health treatment. Her "This Body of Mine" campaign explores migrant experiences through creative voices and has helped support individuals and artists from refugee-seeking backgrounds globally.

Ally Zlatar has received numerous accolades for humanitarian work; such as the Commonwealth Innovation Awards (2023), UNWomen 30 for 2030 (2024), winner of The Princess Diana Legacy Award (2021). Her Doctorate in Creative Arts was completed at the University of Southern Queensland focusing on embodied experiences of mental illness in contemporary art.

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"The ultimate goal of farming is not the growing of crops, but the cultivation and perfection of human beings."

-masanobu fukuoka

Nunnemaker, R. (2024). Outgrown [Mixed-media sculpture].

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home grown

Agricultural Voices From Production to Consumption

In a world where a child may recognise pizza, burgers or chips before they recognise the foods traditionally grown, cooked and shared within their own community... what happens when we lose the knowledge of what grows around us and the stories that come with it?

featuring 30+ artists from 15+ countries

featured artists

(NOT LIVE) support the arts

purchase the publicationamazon | blurbdigital download | print

project team

Alina Kurylolead editor

Murshidul Bhuiyan editor

Ally Zlatar director