Nature and Gardening

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All things green, outdoors, and nature-y. Whether it's animals in their natural habitat, hiking trails and mountains, or planting a little garden for yourself (and everything in between), you can talk about it here.

See also our Environment community, which is focused on weather, climate, climate change, and stuff like that.

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TopSoil:gardening as radical queer resistance (shado-mag.com)

submitted 3 days ago by TRAHR to c/greenspace@beehaw.org

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Brazilian activist Chico Mendes famously said that “Environmentalism without class struggle is just gardening.” His quote is often used to highlight the necessity for intersectionality within climate activism, so that environmental movements truly fight for intersectional climate justice.

However, it also underestimates the radical power of gardening. What happens when you mix gardening with both class and queer struggles? Spaces like TopSoil emerge.

In April 2023, TopSoil began as a safe space for the queer folk of , to come together in community and garden. Sounds simple when put like that.

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[–] LallyLuckFarm@beehaw.org 2 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Gardening is community-building praxis. It enables us to feed our neighbors, teach people to appreciate nature, and creates opportunities to discuss topics that would otherwise cause some to tune us out. The climate crisis, food insecurity, class struggle, community resilience, and so many other topics become incredibly more palatable to a wider audience when viewed and discussed through the lens of gardening. Is it the only thing we should be doing? No, of course not, but it empowers us to grow so much more than just plants.

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[–] kevinrns@mstdn.social 1 point 2 days ago (2 children)

@LallyLuckFarm Gardening isnt "just" anything.

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[–] LallyLuckFarm@beehaw.org 1 point 2 days ago (1 child)

I'm not entirely sure how to parse your reply, but, reading charitably, I think we agree. Gardening is dozens of different disciplines with as many approaches as there are gardeners, with scores of benefits for everyone who practices it.

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[–] kevinrns@mstdn.social 1 point 2 days ago

@LallyLuckFarm The original post was about a wonderful.man who fights for poor folks explaining its all tied together, climate poverty racism, but used the phrase "just gardening" Gardening is never just gardening, its NOT merely anything, and the priority of replacing carbon burned energy is not debatable. Climate collapse is a plastic bag over our head. Thanks for your insight.#climate

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