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GASTRONOMIC COLLABORATIONS

The Tidal Garden collaborates with a network of local food artisans, offering guidance on the development and distribution of halophyte-based food products in Venice and beyond.

The supply chain — spanning from field to finished product — is formalised through a trademark that promotes the cultivation and consumption of halophytes. By integrating agricultural and gastronomic knowledge, it engages local communities in shaping active and sustainable paradigms of landscape stewardship.  

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HALOPHICE-CREAM
AVAILABLE FROM: GELATERIA ALASKA

The ice cream and sorbet flavours made with halophyte plants are part of The Tidal Garden’s strategy of taste education, which focuses on the so-called saltmarsh plants — species whose culinary applications remain largely underestimated.

Developed and refined over a three-year collaboration, the sorbets offered by Gelateria Alaska feature pure flavours of inula, obione, and samphire.

Part of the halophyte family, inula, samphire, and obione are edible plants native to saltmarshes that are gradually colonising the salinised agricultural fields of the Venetian Lagoon.