Author:
Ateqah Khaki
(MENAFN- The Conversation)
Spring came early this year. It's getting warm, and spring flowers like daffodils and tulips, as well as magnolia trees and cherry blossoms have pretty much come and gone.
Many of you have probably already done some spring clean-up in your gardens or community spaces. Maybe you're thinking about what you'll be planting this year.
On this week's Don't Call Me Resilient podcast, we decided it was a perfect time to revisit one of our most popular episodes from last year about the complicated, colonial roots of gardening. In this episode, we explore how colonial history has affected what we plant and also, who gets to garden. And we look to a new way forward, discussing practical gardening tips with an eye to Indigenous knowledge.
We speak to two people with deep knowledge of the topic. Jacqueline L. Scott is a PhD candidate at the University of Toronto's Ontario Institute for Studies in Education. Her research focuses on the wilderness and making it a welcoming space for Black people. And community activist Carolynne Crawley is a woman with Mi'kmaw, Black and Irish ancestry. She is a member of the Indigenous Land Stewardship Circle in Tkaronto and she leads workshops and walks that integrate Indigenous teachings into practice.
Scott says:
Crawley asks:
Native wildflowers in front of a native wildflower planting garden sign.
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Resources
Is it time to decolonize your lawn? - Globe and Mail
The coloniality of planting: legacies of racism and slavery in the practice of botany - The Architectural Review
A Garden for the Rusty-Patched Bumblebee: Creating Habitat for Native Pollinators: Ontario and Great Lakes Edition (by Lorraine Johnson and Sheila Colla, 2022)
Finding Flowers (research project at York University)
From the archives - in The Conversation
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Decolonize your garden: This long weekend, dig into the complicated roots of gardening - Listen
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