ABSTRACT
Community is also a potent and resilient political symbol, one deployed across the political spectrum. Ethnographic publications have also lacked an account of community gardeners 'views of community'. Place is also central to discussions of community within environmental movements, which often blur the boundaries between human and non-human communities, positioning both as co-inhabitants bound by the particularities of their biotic environment. Bioregionalism refers to both a geographical terrain and a terrain of consciousness to a place and the ideas that have developed about how to live in that place. Staeheli argues that the soft, comforting language of care and community can shroud the hard realities of inclusion and exclusion. In the United States, it has been argued that the community garden movement builds on and is influenced by traditions of community organising. Community gardens enable activists to meet some of their own needs for food provision, socialising and recreation, helping to sustain their activism.
