:geordi-no: ditching the word gardening

:geordi-yes: gardening in ditches

this article is like 5 paragraphs long and it ends before he gives his reason for not using the G word. i’m not even mad, he literally doesn’t expand on the headline at all.

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.

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?

“People will own nothing and you will be confused as to why they aren’t doing free landscape work for the landlord.”