THE MODERN MINT BLOG
Lent for the Gardener
Lent, a Christian religious observance that runs from Ash Wednesday through to Easter Sunday, is a special season for the …
Where Have all the Herbicide Loving Gardeners Gone?
We recently read a wonderful essay by comedian Stewart Lee, who tried to answer the question ‘Where have all the right wing comedians gone?’ A fantastic question, and one that has inspired us to ask something similar – where have all the herbicide loving gardeners gone? (For those of you interested in finding out where all the right wing comedians are, Stewart Lee comes to the conclusion you cannot be a clown, a fool, without being at the bottom of the societal rung. How can you show the foibles of the worker if you are the Boss? You can’t, because …
Manifesto for the Modern Gardener
Why Write A Manifesto For The Modern Gardener? A manifesto? For the gardener or garden owner working today? The modern world looks the way it does for a reason – it is shaped by humans for the resources they need, to provide us with the lives we have. To get people discovering how the materials they wear, the foods they eat and the furniture they sit on all comes via the landscape is so important that I suggest gardening must be compulsory for everyone at school. Absolutely everyone. Planting the seeds of passion for gardening and plants, upscaling the knowledge of …
Grown-up Gardening
The comic below is called Grown-ups. We share it with you because it tells us something important about being a Modern Gardener – more important by far than learning Latin plant names (though they are important) and saving water (that is necessary too!) This comic shows us that as a gardener, a Modern Gardener, we have a responsibility to the space we call our home. We get to decide how to use it, what we put in it, the way we interact with the flora and fauna that we share it with. As a Modern Gardener, as a grown-up, we decide …