How can gardening be a radical act of sustainability and community care? How do we build community with neighbors? For Phoenix Calida, gardening is not only a calming ritual of self-care, but also a way to create and sustain community.
In this episode of When We’re Not Hustling, host Jessie Sage sits down with Phoenix to talk about gardening: prepping, homesteading, canning, the sleeping behavior of bees, climate, and so much more.
Phoenix talks about the necessity of neighborly rapport and how gardening can fit into community building. They touch on prepping as an inherently beneficial preservation of resources in case of emergency, and how their interest in prepping diverges from radical conspiracy theorists and doomsday preppers. Jessie and Phoenix also discuss the ins and outs of small-scale farming and homesteading. And, on top of all that, Phoenix shares a recipe for a natural body scrub made from garden resources!
Guest Recommendations:
Book:
- The Farmers Almanac
- How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Compahee River Collective by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
Seeds:
People:
- Guest: Phoenix Calida
- Host: Jessie Sage
- Producer: Emily Foster
- Intern: Anna Fischer
- Music: Benjamin J Benamati
Sponsor: Assembly Four
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