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This discussion has highlighted many aspects of community gardens in Sydney in terms of sustainability, community, engagement and access. Assessment of this access reveals that this requires the negotiation of the spaces between various bodies and involves the flows of information and knowledges between such bodies. These flows and spaces manifest as various networks; however, it is seen that these networks are not discrete entities, but contingent, porous and flexible agglomerations. Further, these networks and the communities they draw upon, reveal divergent manifestations of local embeddedness, which can be seen as spatially concentrated, or drawn together by perceived philosophical or emotional common ground.
An engagement with the bodies of this study as informed by permaculture theory, reveals replication in many realms. This replication, in addition to the generation of and engagement with edge spaces, can be manifest and ensured by collaboration with supporting bodies which may be public or private. Multiplying and opening up points of contact between various bodies including community gardens, may represent a path to the normalisation of urban community food production. This process itself may also represent a way to move beyond simplistic or inaccurate group portrayals and recognise and allow the role of the individual citizen. |
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