‘I Call It Botanarchy’: The Hackney Guerrilla Gardener Bringing Power to the People
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‘I Call It Botanarchy’: The Hackney Guerrilla Gardener Bringing Power to the People
To garden is to make whole again what has been shattered: the relationships in which you are both producer and consumer, in which you reap the bounty of the earth directly, in which you understand fully how something came into being. It may not be significant in scale, but even if it’s a windowsill geranium high above a city street, it can be signi... See more
By October 2018, 480 pacts had been implemented, from community gardens to tool libraries, from murals to repurposing empty buildings as community centres.
Rob Hopkins • From What Is to What If: Unleashing the Power of Imagination to Create the Future We Want
To garden is to care deeply, inclusively and audaciously for the world outside our homes and our heads. It’s a way of being that is intimately interwoven with the real truths of existence—not the things we’re told to value (money, status, ownership), but the things that actually matter (sustenance, perspective, beauty, connection, growth).