The Velveteen Bean extends the forgotten practice of compost outward, helping others engage in climate action that is tactile, collective, and alive. Because breakdown isn’t the end. It’s the beginning of something fertile.

Rooted in the systems art of Maggie Owsley, The Velveteen Bean is both a compost project and a cultural reckoning. Maggie’s work explores decomposition not just as a material process, but as a method of repair—transforming waste into ritual, grief into growth, and soil into story.

Through community education, living installations, and acts of slow resistance, The Velveteen Bean invites people back into relationship with land, loss, and each other—one pile, one practice, one return at a time.

www.maggieowsley.com