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Why Gardens?
Janneke Vorsteveld Janneke Vorsteveld

Why Gardens?

I was sitting in a lecture not long ago, working through centuries of Latin American history, and I found myself asking out loud: am I sovereign?

It rattled me. Because I knew the answer and I didn't want to.

Most of us in Canada cannot grow enough food to feed ourselves. Most of us have no land to grow it on. We have a flag, a constitution, a national identity built on the idea of freedom, and we still line up at food banks.

A garden is not a hobby. It is a reclamation.

Read the full article to find out why a small plot behind a food bank in Bayfield, Ontario is not a small thing.

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