Is Gardening What We’d Do If We Didn’t Have to Work?

After digging into personal and financial growth on the last Trip episode, Nadia, Jem and Keir turn their attention to the undergrowth. Are gardens a sanctuary or an enclosure? Is there a different between being a grower and a gardener? Why does Jeremy Corbyn loves his allotment so much?

From the walled gardens of paradise to the tarmacked lawns of suburban Britain, the gang sketch a weird-left history of gardening, including imperial pineapples, invasive species, zen gravel-raking and the Diggers.

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Books: George McKay – Radical Gardening / L Kiew – More Than Weeds