The treasure that comes from gardening is one that unfolds over time, and it unfolds with a lot of people.
While there are other public spaces—and as a landscape architect, I’ve helped plan those kinds of spaces—you don’t get invited to shape it, as the students here can, and some of the volunteers can. You get your hands in the dirt. You move plants around. You create soil.
These things are very simple processes but they become magical because they’re unique in our world today. The quality of holding soil, holding wood, is something we don’t often get to do. Or even standing on ground that’s not concrete or paving. The meadow does something interesting, in pushing public space in with a semipublic space, and then it further creates sort of an intimate internal space for the people who garden here.
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While there are other public spaces—and as a landscape architect, I’ve helped plan those kinds of spaces—you don’t get invited to shape it, as the students here can, and some of the volunteers can. You get your hands in the dirt. You move plants around. You create soil.
These things are very simple processes but they become magical because they’re unique in our world today. The quality of holding soil, holding wood, is something we don’t often get to do. Or even standing on ground that’s not concrete or paving. The meadow does something interesting, in pushing public space in with a semipublic space, and then it further creates sort of an intimate internal space for the people who garden here.
—Mary Muszynski, from Alex Peterson’s film Meadow Mind
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