There is power in a garden. There is power in the land.
And across the world, from Ukraine to Zambia to south London, gardens are springing up and blossoming in some of the most unlikely places. They’re doing so thanks to a rising wave of land defenders: people reclaiming the right to grow healthy food for themselves and their communities, in a world that is increasingly squeezing that into the margins.
People like Anastasiya Volkova, from Kharkiv on Ukraine’s frontline, who is leading hundreds of local people in creating and sustaining permaculture gardens, sometimes literally under fire.
