written by Elsa Kim
I learned a lot at the Unconventional Gardeners Workshop last Sunday, March 7th. One thing I learned was that we’re truly part of a trend — or a budding movement. Twelve people showed up, enough to surround a table piled with food on the patio of Hi Rise Cafe. Not one of us had gardened for more than a year.
And yet we shared a lot of knowledge between us. The Boston area is notorious for being filled with intellectual types. If we hadn’t gardened before, by God we were going to read up on it, attend workshops, meet people, and Google the shit (then compost it) out of our questions. Our conversation began with our experience (not a lot), our spaces (mostly patios, terraces, fire escapes, and other container garden-worthy areas), what we hoped to plant (mostly vegetables), and moved on from there, in a random zigzag. If you’re already bored, skip ahead to this: we’ve started a google map of local resources for Urban Homesteaders. Feel free to add to it.