Garden Communities: Ecological Intersubjectivities

• In Event: Roundtable Session 32
  In Roundtable Session: Food Communities, Garden Communities: Underlying Lessons, Limits, and Liminality

Abstract

This paper addresses two different gardens, which are defined to be human contrived spaces, but with some degree of biodiversity. One garden was a naturalized area; the other was a community garden with vegetables and flowers. Both offered rich opportunities for exploring human-human, and human-other species intersubjectivities. The naturalized garden involved day care children, ages two years six months; the community garden involved an ethnically, culturally, gender, family diversity. Using grounded theory, and a critical narrative examination, we explored how the children and adults made ecological understandings with/in their garden communities.

Authors

• Janet McVittie, University of Saskatchewan

• Vince B. Anderson, University of Saskatchewan

• Ranjan K. Datta, University of Saskatchewan