Category: Cultivation

A meal from food grown for others in unexpected urban spaces.

Guerilla and community gardeners cultivate derelict, abandoned or neglected places in cities and towns. They nurture life, beauty and nutrition. They present a vision about what can be done among concrete and asphalt when there is a will for real social change. This is spirituality with a spade.

Often food-for-free is grown along sidewalks because the neighbourhood is food-sterile in terms of real nourishment. Others plant fruit and veg in their front gardens for passers-by to harvest; or those living in high-rise grow food-to-share on their balconies. Meals sourced from food planted within poor urban localities are most certainly Peacemeals and are to be celebrated as such.

Community gardens can also teach people to eat locally, sustainably and organically, nourishing body and soul. They can be a place of rest and refreshment. They can also strengthen community, bringing the stranger in to dig alongside us and share the bounty of the earth. If you are part of such a project please tell us so we can all learn.