Thelonious Monk performing at the Newport Jazz Festival, New York City, 1975
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It doesn’t matter how little space you have, there is always space for growing!
That’s really cool
my nigga, is you payin and gettin me a bigger apt, w a terrace, some land? money to plant and grow it all? gettin me a job thatll take part time hours but still pay enough to get by, so i got time to do it all? help me grow it when im not physically able? no? ok, well dont tell me how much space i got, either
bai.
Srsly, this ‘YOU CAN DO IT!’ shit needs to be -BACKED-.
I am all for the encouragement of urban gardening, but pretty pictures and platitudes aren’t enough. You need to be out there handing out dirt and seeds and containers, you need to be getting out there and building wheelchair-accessible raised community gardens and building seed libraries and showing people how to hang tomato plants off fire escapes and commandeer city land - and even THEN you don’t say ‘YOU CAN DO IT!’ you say ‘Hey, this is how to do it, if you want in.’
Telling people they can do it isn’t doing shit if you’re not actually showing them how and helping to make it possible.
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