Radicle Roots / Guerrilla Gardening Naarm (Melbourne) is a collective creating a community garden on the unceded lands of the Wurundjeri people in Coburg, next to the Merri Merri Creek.
The project aims to respond to the escalating cost-of-living and climate crises by creating localised food systems that do not rely on industry or the state. Inequalities plague existing food systems; they actively create obstacles to accessing fresh healthy food. The garden aims to create a grassroots alternative to these systems and promote the power of community collaboration and solidarity in meeting our needs.
The collective intends to discard ideas of land ownership and instead practice ideas of collective care for and equal access to land, embodying the concept of ‘the commons’.
Funds will not be used to pay members of the collective; rather, all funds raised will go towards covering material and maintenance costs for the garden.
We acknowledge the Traditional Owners of the land on which we are working and that their sovereignty was never ceded.
Listen to the 3CR radio interview part1 and part2 for more about Radicle Roots
Contact us at guerillagardeningnaarm@proton.me