Sunday, 5 October 2014

Radical Gardening!

Is growing something a revolutionary act?
(In a very gentle way) it can be!


Stickers from Breakfast and Jess

From growing your own food to reduce your reliance on supermarkets, look after your health or take cash away from the capitalist fat cats; to communal growing to bolster your community and help address a myriad of social problems. You can care for the land, create a habitat for nature; or do a spot of guerrilla gardening to reclaim the concrete wasteland. You can starting your own one person recycling scheme by making your own compost, or save seed and propagate & give away to spread the gardening love... gardening can be way to stand up against wastefulness, want & the general decline of western civilisation into a greed-driven consumerist slump. Literally grassroots and from the ground up, constructive instead of destructive, gardeners make places that are often productive and beautiful in a myriad of different ways.

Not a filthy commie dissenter? No problem! Gardening is fun for capitalists & rightwingers too! In fact, one of the major joys of gardening is the way it can bring people together. No matter what your political persuasion, you can have a good old chinwag about how to get rid of peony blight or your new favourite potato variety.

So is gardening revolutionary?
This man:

Ron Findlay
certainly believes it can be. Watch his TED talk (follow the link) and be persuaded.

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