ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the ways community gardeners garden and the ways gardening can become a form of collective social and political action in which knowledge, ideas and power are made manifest in the landscape. Rolling the compost barrels is a morning activity, before it becomes too hot to work in the full sun. Waste from nearby restaurants, lawn-mowing contractors and the garden is piled into human size tumblers with green comfrey and manure from the garden's chickens added to speed its transformation. The Australian City Farms and Community Gardens Network actively promotes organic practices in its conferences, submissions, website and publications and for most community gardeners, an organic approach is central to their gardening practice. Food security is an evolving, contested and complex concept, understood differently at different scales and from different political and theoretical orientations. Cultivating Community, for example, has increasingly prioritised food security aims, emphasising access rather than production.
