111Chapter 6 Cultivating the Self, Tending Others: Wellbeing, Relationality, and Transformation in Community Gardens

Urban Farm DB summary

This chapter discusses the relationship between community gardens and wellbeing, viewing wellbeing as a cultural field. It explores how gardeners experience wellbeing through their gardening and what these experiences reveal about their lifestances. The analysis shows that gardening can contribute to collective wellbeing through transformative engagement with ethics and ontologies, and that community gardens can serve as "everyday utopias" for expressing critique and desire for change. It identifies both the possibilities and limits of community gardens in fostering holistic, relational, transformative approaches to wellbeing.