Garden Anarchy in L.A. - Wonderground
Plants and gardens are an important, and often undervalued, gateway drug. Wonderground is a place of storytelling; of irreverence, intelligence, curiosity and connection. It draws equally from culture and horticulture, art and science, beauty and botany. It’s a garden, though it’s taken me a while to see this.
Wonderground • Audacious Gardening: On Daring to Care
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gardening as a counterforce to disconnect, a salve to the illusion of human separateness and control, and a path toward what it means to live a truly good life.
Wonderground • Audacious Gardening: On Daring to Care
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Digital gardens hold a component of discovery where gardeners may be delighted or surprised by what they may find. They are designed to embrace a culture of learning, where one may be open to be changed by ideas.
On Digital Gardens: Tending to Our Collective Multiplicity
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To be a gardener is to give a fuck. To be a gardener is to be invested in a place—to know it, to protect it, to be present to it. How can we protect and heal ourselves and our planet if we’re not willing to step into, and value, the role of the gardener?
Wonderground • Audacious Gardening: On Daring to Care
ore often than not, the digital gardens of today are botanic—privately owned online spaces made for visitors to fawn over while a “do not touch” sign looms in view. These private gardens are generative for our personal learning, but they are far from the communal gardens I grew up in that valued collective work and knowledge. Where are the digital
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‘I Call It Botanarchy’: The Hackney Guerrilla Gardener Bringing Power to the People
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