Growing the Beautiful Anthropocene: Ethics of Care in East European Food Gardens

This study contributes to research proposing the ethics of care framework as a way imagining food system that cares for Others. We expand this exploration everyday practice home gardening and related social relationships material flows. area complements current scholarship, which mostly focuses on food-related form activism driven by intentionality knowledge about effects consumption choices. Combining survey representative sample population an in-depth qualitative study, our paper highlights importance inconspicuous but materially significant self-provisioning sharing practices caring behaviors do not rely educational campaigns draw desire produce healthy human Home grown is distributed in generalized reciprocity mode within wide food-sharing networks. The further translates into adoption methods cultivation benefit non-human Others involved garden ecosystems.