Birk - Coastal Maine Botanical Garden

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Birk - Coastal Maine Botanical Garden

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Allen Beatty

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Photograph - Photographs

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There’s indeed magic in the midcoast’s forest this summer. The trolls are here: the Guardians of the Seeds, who have taken an oath to protect the earth. Roskva, Birk, Gro, Søren, and Lilja each have collected enough seeds to last until the end of time. These giant wooden forest trolls can be found across the 300 acres of the Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens. The seeds they hold ensure that our precious chestnut, cherry, elm, spruce, hazel, oak, ash, beech, birch, and maple trees remain on earth. As the trolls say, “A future with no trees is no future at all.” How did they come to be? Each giant was made by internationally renowned and recycled arts activist and artist Thomas Dambo using upcycled materials sourced from around the state. You will receive a map when you enter the gardens. Next you will be presented with the challenge of finding the 10 golden seeds at the end of the maze hidden by the trolls. It is an adventure children and adults of all ages won’t want to miss. After millions of years, some of our trees are disappearing but, as the trolls show us, there’s hope to be found within the seeds.
hese giants were created by a team of workers armed with drills and hammers; for hours they perched on ladders and climbed the trolls’ bodies to securely attach hundreds of pieces of wood to the frame of the troll. Each wood piece has a history: some are discarded shipping pallets from hardware stores, some are scraps from the local lumber yard, and some are debris from fallen trees. The troll Birk is 30 feet high, with sprawling limbs that stretch 30 feet wide. His beard was made using collected twigs and branches. Each troll loosely resembles a different part of a tree: the roots, trunk, branches, leaves, and flowers. The trolls will remain in the forest until they breakdown and eventually become part of the ecosystem again.
BIRK holds the roots. He is the wisest and most mysterious of the trolls. You will find him hiding in the shadows and listening to the whispers of the soil. Birk knows everything that happens in the wild, and every day he tells tales to all the other creatures of the forest.

Reprinted from Maine Home+Design

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June 27th, 2022

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