Abundance Gardens
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Abundance Gardens

During Big Dig Gigs, neighbors bring surplus plants to a site, build their own abundance gardens and plants serve as catalysts for new communities. Part-plant-potlucks and part-exchanges, these abundance gardens reflect surplusses embedded in the communities that create them, grow with time and become surplus gardens where communities return, divide and share surplus plants.

How to get an abundance garden started.

Donated irises and grasses formed the basis of an Abundance Garden at the Hyde Park Art Center in 2012. Five years later there are plenty of extra plants to share.

An indoor Abundance Garden, Hyde Park Art Center, 2013

Abundance Garden made by neighbors at Theaster Gates’ Archive House

G.E.E.E. Garden - Chicago, Illinois

Surplus Plants begin to form an Abundance Garden at Theater Gates’ Archive House

G.E.E.E. Garden - Chicago, Illinois
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