ABSTRACT
Historical accounts show community gardens as products of particular influences whether the agency of social movements, the actions of governments, or the impacts of economics and world events. While accounts emphasise different influences, there is often at least intimation that community gardening is associated with social change. The evolution of community gardening in Australia may in fact have occurred along a different trajectory to that of the United States and Canada. Proceeding from Bassett's masters thesis, most North American accounts of the history of community gardening follow an economically driven trajectory. Colin Ward suggests a clear lineage from the Diggers to current day community gardeners. Pudup has argued that community gardening' has become so encompassing that it is no longer a useful frame for analysis. Identity is fundamental to the study of social movements. A garden created specifically for these programs would probably not be seen by members of the Australian community gardening movement as a community garden.
