‘I Call It Botanarchy’: The Hackney Guerrilla Gardener Bringing Power to the People

But surely this is better than suffocating the land with concrete and herbaceous borders? That method tends to be fast and convenient, and may be more accepted by our culture and the gardening industry, but it doesn’t encourage an intimate relationship between you and the land – or any connection at all, for that matter.

Gardening is, of course, an intrinsically hopeful act and it is a reparative act but, particularly in the world today, it can also be a defiant act.

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