{"id":101,"date":"2021-07-19T20:27:08","date_gmt":"2021-07-19T20:27:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/cultureofgardening\/?p=101"},"modified":"2021-08-31T02:26:51","modified_gmt":"2021-08-31T02:26:51","slug":"athens-journey-in-photos-and-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/cultureofgardening\/2021\/07\/19\/athens-journey-in-photos-and-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Athen&#8217;s journey: in photos and video"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Pollinators on goldenrod in Athen&#039;s garden\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/SaVsEMy8uZE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\"><blockquote><p>I think my attraction to gardening has always been along the continuum of queerness.<\/p><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\"><blockquote><p><\/p><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text alignfull has-media-on-the-right is-stacked-on-mobile\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/4504\/files\/2021\/07\/IMG_2482-768x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-106 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/4504\/files\/2021\/07\/IMG_2482-768x1024.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/4504\/files\/2021\/07\/IMG_2482-225x300.jpeg 225w, https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/4504\/files\/2021\/07\/IMG_2482-1152x1536.jpeg 1152w, https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/4504\/files\/2021\/07\/IMG_2482-1536x2048.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/4504\/files\/2021\/07\/IMG_2482-1870x2493.jpeg 1870w, https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/4504\/files\/2021\/07\/IMG_2482-400x533.jpeg 400w, https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/4504\/files\/2021\/07\/IMG_2482-800x1067.jpeg 800w, https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/4504\/files\/2021\/07\/IMG_2482-scaled.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p class=\"has-large-font-size\">The main thing I grow in the garden that I\u2019m intentional about is for the pollinators. It\u2019s what I pay attention to. I garden these days primarily with pollinators in mind.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"In the garden\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/KI96eVWgE1w?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><figcaption>A visit to Athen&#8217;s garden on a Sunday morning in July 2021 includes the sounds of the church choir singing next door. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\"><blockquote><p>Gardens bring communities together\u2026gardens invite curiosity and engagement and they\u2019re very receptive\u2026you can come and enjoy the garden at whatever level of experience and observation you\u2019re at.<\/p><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text alignfull has-media-on-the-right is-stacked-on-mobile is-vertically-aligned-top\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/4504\/files\/2021\/07\/IMG_2480-1024x768.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-109 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/4504\/files\/2021\/07\/IMG_2480-1024x768.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/4504\/files\/2021\/07\/IMG_2480-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/4504\/files\/2021\/07\/IMG_2480-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/4504\/files\/2021\/07\/IMG_2480-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/4504\/files\/2021\/07\/IMG_2480-2048x1536.jpeg 2048w, https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/4504\/files\/2021\/07\/IMG_2480-1870x1403.jpeg 1870w, https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/4504\/files\/2021\/07\/IMG_2480-400x300.jpeg 400w, https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/4504\/files\/2021\/07\/IMG_2480-800x600.jpeg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p class=\"has-large-font-size\">I think when you\u2019ve been gardening for a while and you\u2019re thinking about the soil and the ecosystem and the community of the garden\u2026what is going on here? What can grow here? What wants to grow here? What helps? Those are really critical questions queer and marginalized people have to ask ourselves and work on in our lives, and when we take a community perspective, it\u2019s something we\u2019re always working on\u2026how can we create a richer ecosystem? Doing that in the garden is a really interesting way to practice.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text alignfull is-stacked-on-mobile is-vertically-aligned-top\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/4504\/files\/2021\/07\/IMG_2476-768x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-108 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/4504\/files\/2021\/07\/IMG_2476-768x1024.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/4504\/files\/2021\/07\/IMG_2476-225x300.jpeg 225w, https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/4504\/files\/2021\/07\/IMG_2476-1152x1536.jpeg 1152w, https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/4504\/files\/2021\/07\/IMG_2476-1536x2048.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/4504\/files\/2021\/07\/IMG_2476-1870x2493.jpeg 1870w, https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/4504\/files\/2021\/07\/IMG_2476-400x533.jpeg 400w, https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/4504\/files\/2021\/07\/IMG_2476-800x1067.jpeg 800w, https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/4504\/files\/2021\/07\/IMG_2476-scaled.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p class=\"has-large-font-size\">Generationally queer folks and people of color, disabled people, we experience a tremendous amount of loss at the family level, and at the community level. Maybe that\u2019s part of why I really enjoy community gardens: they\u2019re carved out, and they\u2019re transitory. This is an apartment building. I won\u2019t be here forever. Something else will happen. There\u2019s something about loss and the transitory nature of gardening in a place that isn\u2019t yours that also is like, nothing of this is ours. Gardening is also a practice in time. It\u2019s cycles. And learning to really live with it. The thing that I plant today may or may not be here in a few years. And that has to be okay.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/4504\/files\/2021\/07\/IMG_2445-768x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-110\" srcset=\"https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/4504\/files\/2021\/07\/IMG_2445-768x1024.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/4504\/files\/2021\/07\/IMG_2445-225x300.jpeg 225w, https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/4504\/files\/2021\/07\/IMG_2445-1152x1536.jpeg 1152w, https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/4504\/files\/2021\/07\/IMG_2445-1536x2048.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/4504\/files\/2021\/07\/IMG_2445-1870x2493.jpeg 1870w, https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/4504\/files\/2021\/07\/IMG_2445-400x533.jpeg 400w, https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/4504\/files\/2021\/07\/IMG_2445-800x1067.jpeg 800w, https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/4504\/files\/2021\/07\/IMG_2445-scaled.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>When I first moved into this neighborhood there were so many vacant lots. And of course, those vacant lots were because of structural racism and disinvestment in the neighborhood. A lot of those lots had been black-owned businesses so that emptiness was someone else\u2019s terrible loss. And for me, what I experienced in those vacant lots was openness, open space, and that\u2019s really hard about capitalism and marginalized people living with and around other marginalized people, sharing our different identities and privileges, and experiences: that someone else\u2019s loss becomes my sense of possibility. This garden, this building, I\u2019m pretty sure it has a connection to that church. This building was full of black people once. When I moved in there were a few black people living here. Now, there\u2019s just a few people of color in the building and as far as I know, none of them are black. That\u2019s always been very complicated to me, as a queer person: I look for spaces where nothing is happening, where I can make a life. But one of the things that has changed for me as I\u2019ve gotten older, and that I\u2019ll always be learning and getting better at, is recognizing there\u2019s always something happening. There\u2019s no place where nothing is happening. <br><strong>We\u2019re always gardening on top of someone else\u2019s grave.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/cultureofgardening\/2021\/07\/19\/athen-gardening-in-community-with-people-and-pollinators\/\">Read more about Athen&#8217;s interview and story<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span class=\"has-inline-color has-gray-color\">Photos and video by LeAnn Locher<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think my attraction to gardening has always been along the continuum of queerness. The main thing I grow in the garden that I\u2019m intentional about is for the pollinators. It\u2019s what I pay attention to. I garden these days primarily with pollinators in mind. 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