For many years, I’ve felt the need to defend my passion for veggie gardening, composting and general foraging. At best, my friends found this pass-time a quaint little quirk, and at worst, an embarrassment. I struggled to spread the word on how cool gardening really is. Fortunately, American artist, designer, collector and all-round gangsta, Ron Finley, is doing a way better job than me. ‘If you ain’t a gardener, you ain’t gangsta’ is Finley’s proclamation, asserting that inner-city gardening is ‘the most therapeutic and defiant act you can do’. Read the rest of this entry »
