George's article on radical gardening... his book on the subject is out shortly.
Any notions of a horti-countercultural politics (I agree that they probably don't called them horti-countercultural politics) that gardeners may have imagined were in their earthy practice and pleasure have a rich and challenging tradition, a significance and a trajectory of energy and import that makes them matter for our future. "Why," asks writer-gardener Jamaica Kincaid, "must people insist that the garden is a place of rest and repose, a place to forget the cares of the world, a place in which to distance yourself from the painful responsibility with being a human being?"
Full:
http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/house-and-home/gardening/radical-plots-the-politics-of-gardening-2277631.html
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