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Community Garden Essay

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Murray Browne

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A vibrant garden scene featuring green leafy plants and tall, purple amaranth flowers. In the foreground, a birdbath shaped like a flower holds water, surrounded by rich foliage.

I am not sure where I spent more time this summer—working at the community garden OR writing about the community garden.  Either way the results are about the same – some limited success with mostly colorful flowers but a few more weeds than I would care to admit. (Guess which picture is from my garden plot.)

You can be judge by checking out my essay “Battling My Ambivalence at the Community Garden.” This is my thirteenth piece for Tropics of Meta: Historiography for the Masses (list here.)

Coincidently, I will be at the Wylde Center Fall Plant Sale in Oakhurst on Saturday, September 12th from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. with my popup Destination: Books. I will have copies of the books by Rebecca Solnit and Kate Brown which I write about in the essay.

 And for the record the community garden that I refer to in the piece is NOT the one of the spaces that the Wylde Center manages. But we can talk about other things. Sometimes Destination: Books popups become almost what I call a “green salon.”

A display of books on gardening and plant care, featuring a wooden bookshelf and a table covered with a green patterned cloth, located outside a building surrounded by greenery.

4 responses to “Community Garden Essay”

  1. Alfred Thigpen Avatar
    Alfred Thigpen

    I wonder if there are any books on gardening in extreme climate change. If it were just a matter of hotter years, adapting would be more feasible, but the problem will be (and is) extremes in heat, cold, moisture, and drought. Forget fires.

    Thanks for bringing a bit of calm and sanity to our internet lives.

    Alfred

    PS: I can no longer find a book we used in horticulture class at UGA, “Know it and Grow it.” It was as pragmatic as our grumpy professor was.

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    1. Murray Browne Avatar
      Murray Browne

      Alfred,

      Thanks for checking out the post. As a bookseller, I can tell orange-flame book covers like THE HEAT WILL KILL YOU FIRST never even get picked up. (I read it). The best near future doom book with a way out is THE MINISTRY FOR THE FUTURE by Kim Stanley which received a lot of deserved praise.

      KNOW IT AND GROW IT sounds good. I saw a new copy on ALibris for $125 so if you see a copy at Goodwill grab it

      Murray

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    Gael Doyle

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      Murray Browne

      Gael,

      Thanks for reading and commenting, but unsure why the frown. For the record, if the community garden coordinators were as conscientious and hardworking as you, I would not have much to write about.

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