Joyce talks about why she felt the need to begin the project, how it works, what happens when it succeeds and why the idea is of benefit to whole communities, as well as the individuals involved.
How likely are you to find someone on Lend and Tend who shares the same view of what a garden can and should be?
Joyce is the founder of Lend and Tend and is a self-taught gardener with a passion for sharing skills and experiences. Joyce is always looking for ways to look after the environment and to promote social justice. Her aim with Lend and Tend is to democratise access to growing space, which she rightly views as an act of horticultural rebellion. Talk about multi-talented! So Lend and Tend is a garden sharing project. And it was just, it was just a nightmare.
And I said that enough times to enough people that somebody came out of the woodwork very kindly, a friend of a friend came through and started letting me share the garden. And then I was at the time, I think I had like a Tumblr page. So I just started helping other people do it. And then it grew from there. So but first of all, does it operate just in the UK? Although so far, I only have made matches for people in the UK. Fair enough. But I guess that you find a patch match in your local area.
I mean, how likely are you to find someone who shares the same view of what a garden can and even should be? I guess you kind of have to enter a contract of mutual respect. First and foremost. You know, Fred, the garden owner has got some prized rose bushes that he says look there in my special part of the garden. Yeah, sure. Okay, right. The garden tender might say, Well, what about all the veggies I grow?
