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Gardening As Resistance
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Gardening As Resistance
Ages 3-6
Ages 4-8
Ages 4-10
Gardening as resistance! Gardening is where I find joy, peace, improved mental health, food-‘Outside” is my favorite room in the house I live in.
I somehow forgot that I could use this thing (which already feels exciting and within my wheelhouse) to plant some seeds (HAR!) of resistance with my kids and explain WHY we do the things we do. Thanks for the reminder!
– Cat L., Raising Luminaries Member
When is it?
- Gardening As Self-Care Day is June 6th
- Weed Your Garden Day is 6/13
Read:
Watch:
What is a Food Desert? via Revolutionary Humans
Discuss:
- How did the plants in our garden end up here?
- As humans, what is our relationship to the soil, water, and the plants we grow?
- When we care for our gardens, are we ‘in charge’ of them, or are we more like friends helping each other out?
- Which plants in our garden are indigenous, and which are naturalized, and which are invasive?
- How can we support our garden so our kids and grandkids can have a good relationship with it later?
Take Action
- Take pictures of 3 plants that grow near your house.
- Identify your plants using a plant identifying app, online group, or image search.
- Are your plants native, invasive, or naturalized?
- What relationship will you develop with these neighborhood plants when you come across them in the future?
- Support resistance & land reclaimation projects, like the Detroit Black Farmers Land Fund
More Resources to dig deeper:
- Stories about Collective Action Through Community Gardening
- Stories about Guerilla Gardening as Resistance
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Love these ideas and resources, and thank you so much for the link to Detroit Black Farmers Land Fund, which is directly related to a conversation I was having with my 6 yo last week about racial inequality in housing laws, and then I got a bit stuck and this will be so helpful for going one layer deeper!