A provocative public artwork and a floating edible landscape, Swale is a project developed by artist Mary Mattingly built atop a barge that was once used for hauling sand to construction sites. Challenging city policies that prohibit foraging practices inside public land—growing or picking food on New York’s public land has been illegal for almost a century—Swale utilised marine common law in order to circumvent local public land-based laws. Closed during the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, Swale’s next iteration is currently being designed in Brooklyn, ready to continue shifting policies and inviting more people to expand the uses of public land.