Sow. Grow. Eat. Repeat.
Sow seeds. Grow together. Eat healthy. Repeat love.
Please join in on Gardening Day 2010, the 3rd Saturday of May.
A little background (why):
Personally, as a human, I am seeking ways to innovate the way I live. As a designer, I seek to find ways to do things in the analog sense, manual creation with my hands, physically painting, drawing or assembling. Whether or not it is incorporated into design, it depends on the project and the client. As a human designer, I am constantly moving in between the two, innovative living and manually designing, intertwining the information I gather from each.
Since I care about what I eat and where it comes from, this project is the culmination of my love of gardening and my love of creating. Gardening day is not an official holiday. There are a few similar ideas out there: Naked Gardening day and International Kitchen Gardening day. I want to create a day where people are encouraged to start or tend to their own garden, or community garden, together and also to provide them with free information and advice.
Since the 60’s and 70’s, the nuclear family has disembodied the community lifestyle of America. In Robert D. Putnam’s book Bowling Alone: the collapse and revival of American community he describes how the American community has lost its sense of connection, embodied connection. Though associations and clubs are created, they rarely fulfill any type of connection required for living in a community. “The bond between any two members of the National Wildlife Federation or the National Rifle Association is less like the bond between two Yankees fans on opposite coasts (or perhaps two devoted L.L. Bean catalog users): they share some of the same interests, but they are unaware f each other’s existence. Their ties are to common symbols, common leaders, and perhaps common ideals, but not to each other.” (Putnam, Bowling Alone, p. 52) This disconnect of American society fuels my desire to reconnect it, through gardening.
I believe people, especially those in urban settings, need to focus their attention on the natural process of life in order to stay grounded and not get carried away with the technological advances and cyber “realities” that tear them away from reality. Planting small gardens with others (family members or friends) will teach the post-modern individual about how nature works together, its fragility and its importance in and to society. In tending to and caring for their garden, they might learn to love and grow connections with others as well as their seedlings.
Check back here to ask questions, give advice, post photos of your gardening adventures and visit the links to visit other gardening friends around the country and world.
Happy Gardening!
Photos from my garden:
Tomatoes
Basil and Cilantro
Apples
Bell Peppers
A little background (why):
Personally, as a human, I am seeking ways to innovate the way I live. As a designer, I seek to find ways to do things in the analog sense, manual creation with my hands, physically painting, drawing or assembling. Whether or not it is incorporated into design, it depends on the project and the client. As a human designer, I am constantly moving in between the two, innovative living and manually designing, intertwining the information I gather from each.
Since I care about what I eat and where it comes from, this project is the culmination of my love of gardening and my love of creating. Gardening day is not an official holiday. There are a few similar ideas out there: Naked Gardening day and International Kitchen Gardening day. I want to create a day where people are encouraged to start or tend to their own garden, or community garden, together and also to provide them with free information and advice.
Since the 60’s and 70’s, the nuclear family has disembodied the community lifestyle of America. In Robert D. Putnam’s book Bowling Alone: the collapse and revival of American community he describes how the American community has lost its sense of connection, embodied connection. Though associations and clubs are created, they rarely fulfill any type of connection required for living in a community. “The bond between any two members of the National Wildlife Federation or the National Rifle Association is less like the bond between two Yankees fans on opposite coasts (or perhaps two devoted L.L. Bean catalog users): they share some of the same interests, but they are unaware f each other’s existence. Their ties are to common symbols, common leaders, and perhaps common ideals, but not to each other.” (Putnam, Bowling Alone, p. 52) This disconnect of American society fuels my desire to reconnect it, through gardening.
I believe people, especially those in urban settings, need to focus their attention on the natural process of life in order to stay grounded and not get carried away with the technological advances and cyber “realities” that tear them away from reality. Planting small gardens with others (family members or friends) will teach the post-modern individual about how nature works together, its fragility and its importance in and to society. In tending to and caring for their garden, they might learn to love and grow connections with others as well as their seedlings.
Check back here to ask questions, give advice, post photos of your gardening adventures and visit the links to visit other gardening friends around the country and world.
Happy Gardening!
Photos from my garden:
Little Boston Lettuce
Tomatoes
Basil and Cilantro
Apples
Bell Peppers
Note: This is not an official blog nor is this day or event sponsored yet. This is a project culminated out of a senior design class I took at Azusa Pacific University. I would definitely like it to go into effect, though at the moment I do not have the time or resources to carry it out. If you are interested in the possibility of moving this forward or if you would like to see the other marketing collateral I created, or if you'd just like to say "Hi", please contact me at alexandriahusby@gmail.com. Thanks for checking it out.
