Jaimee Frances Edwards is growing plants in her garden. She has no illusions that she’ll enjoy the fruits of her labour in the years ahead. She’s well aware that gardening is irrational. Why so? Like many other tenants, rising rents will force her to move on.
But if she waits until she has land of her own, she may never have the experience of eating homegrown tomatoes and having a pond where birds and other wild creatures can drink.
It’s clear from Edwards’ account that tenants are not simply robots that fill a landlord’s purse. They are human beings. In Edwards case, at least in part, being human means gardening.
For this particular human’s take on being a tenant, read more in The Guardian: Is My Rented Garden An Act Of Resistance To The Precarity Of My Living Situation? Possibly
