organism that requires land and green space isn’t being grown because people don’t have land and green space……huh, maybe eliminating the word gardening will fix things
“People will own nothing and you will be confused as to why they aren’t doing free landscape work for the landlord.”
I’m very confused what the problem is here. Is it because people like growing shit but don’t subscribe to Bougie Gardener magazine?
sometimes an article is so bad it must be read. Like I was expecting that there was some classist/racist origin behind the word gardening but nope, the journalist who wrote this was one of those people who buys a plant because Instagram told them too and got laughed at when they said they were a gardener.
Its one thing to say gardening is racist, its another to say the word itself is problematic. Is the word gardening racist, that’s what I want to know.
did i read a different article or something?
it reads to me as just:
young people don’t describe themselves as gardeners any more, is it because gardening is gatekeepy?
As someone who is involved in a lot of community gardening activities, I am also trying to change my use of the word gardening to farming.
Mostly, because gardening sounds amateur and like a hobby – and I want to start conveying the message that if we don’t start taking growing food seriously we will not be in a good place when global food systems start to collapse.
So for me, it’s farming, or agriculture. It can be super small scale, in a back yard, or community driven, but I try to use words other than gardening.
