BINDWEED

The Franklinton Farms Zine

Bindweed was created, developed, and produced by the staff of Franklinton Farms in 2023 and 2024.

  • Issue 1 was made possible by the George Bellows Award from the Franklinton Arts District.

  • Issues 2 - 4 were made possible with support from the Looking Out Foundation.

Thank you to Lone Crow Printing for helping us print the first issue.

(What is a zine?)

Why Bindweed?

Bindweed represents the collective entanglement of a neighborhood ecosystem. We all rely on each other and affect each other in multitudes of seen and unseen ways.

Bindweed is also a highly invasive plant that can cause destruction in an ecosystem - how can we see ourselves reflected in bindweed, and where does the work we are trying to achieve as an organisation figure in?

This zine is a chance to express what the challenging ideas of what growth/ decay / resilience/adaptation really mean.

For further reading, take a look at the Radical Tenderness Manifesto.

 

Bindweed 1 - Intro to Franklinton

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With thanks to Lu Jones, Keni Brown, Akil Fletcher, Robert Riley, Carmen Highhouse, Shane Richardson, Keegan Robert Doyle, John Thorne, Nathan Schmidt, Tess Primmer, Beau Gimblett, and the Franklinton Farms Community for the creation of this issue.

 

Bindweed 2 - The Feral Cat Issue

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With thanks to Keni Brown and Lu Jones - as well as the neighborhood cats of Franklinton - for the creation of this issue.

 

Bindweed 3 - What Our Hands And Hearts Hold

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With thanks to Morgan Jack - and the Patrick Kaufman Learning Garden - for the creation of this issue.

 

Bindweed 4 - “It Takes a Village”

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With thanks to Emma Gardner and Beau Gimblett - as well as the extended community of Franklinton Farms - for the creation of this issue.