https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2022/aug/28/james-wong-on-gardening-is-it-time-we-ditched-the-word-gardening-
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
Also gardening is super mega popular here, everybody who has an inch of balcony does it to some extent.
"People will own nothing and you will be confused as to why they aren't doing free landscape work for the landlord."
Does the pot growing in my bathroom count as gardening?
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.
He wrote an article about why the word gardening was bad, that's why.
it's a nothing article where he just says young people don't call themselves gardeners
and that one of the reasons might be that "proper" gardeners are kinda gatekeepy
i fail to see the problem
apparently he's a botanist, not a journalist. i think the issue is he isn't a good writer and doesn't know how to communicate whatever vague idea he wanted to do an article on.
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?Unsure myself what the point was. There were references to some hash tags, some of them seemed to be gendered so ... scratches head... maybe some of the baggage around the word gardening is gendered assumptions? But the author doesn't give an opinion on this aspect.
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.
: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.
