First Step: Make a hole.

Gardens are a form of autobiography.
--Sydney Eddison, Horticulture magazine, August/September 1993

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So, this is a digital literacy experiment that is meant to understand something, anything, about our urban world. I chose community gardens not exactly knowing anything about them, what they are defined as, but simply for the reason that anything with the word "community" and "sustainable living" will inevitably catch on as a buzzword. Simply, It's hip to be sustainable and community gardening is a way that sustainability is practiced.

I know that this will take a form of its own, but I know I want to see the ways community gardens are a strong facilitator as well as indicator of social capital. The Urban Way of Life, as suggested by Louis Wirth, is completely segregated from the rural, and at the surface, it seems that community gardening is a step into the past, romanticized days of agrarian communities.

In the quotation above (which I wholeheartedly admit was taken from some random quote bank about an author and magazine I know nothing about), it suggest that there is something inherent about Gardens, that in a way, it is a reflection of ourselves. I'm sure we can say that about anything we create, hypothetically. But even at this primary stage of collecting my thoughts, it's becoming obvious that there is something uniquely organic (pun somewhat intended) about Gardens that become rooted manifestations of our lives. If Eddison was correct in what he suggests, if gardens indeed are personal autobiographies, community gardens are then, at least to some extent, the city's autobiography, the story we tell ourselves of ourselves.