Cooperative Journeys

It interests me, this journey into the garden each spring to notice how diverse vegies and flowers, edibles and ornamentals, pollinators and soil enrichers, work cooperatively together when they can My own planning part notices potential competitions, for light water deeper top soil, but these pursue optimizing cooperation to jointly thrive, not competition to barely survive trauma, stress, pain, loss, duress. While sitting in the shade looking over a host of community gardens enlivened and enriched by cooperative community gardeners, I recall business and even public sector classrooms worshiping at the win/lose altar of competitive capital investment Sure, without responsible question, that at the end of our lifetime journey we will be celebrated by our successful oppressions, suppressions of the vanquishable repressions of the feminist weak within ourselves our gardens our families and compassionate friends. This has not been my experience, that I am celebrated by, and for, those I have divested of obstacles to overpower, mere consumer subjects to satiate into silence, to financially abuse, to emotionally neglect. Whether contemplating another spring season of cooperative community gardens or harvesting reasons at the end of a long midsummer dream In which we are religiously celebrated for our multicultural passions and polycultural communion, participating in EarthTribe's cooperatively redemptive journey back toward green pristine Eden.