Refugees and gardening
Now here’s an odd thing. A while ago now one of the women at our community gardens announced that each week, she would leave a box in the pergola and any of us who had surplus crops could put stuff in it. This would be taken to the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre. I thought it was a good idea, and looked out for the box. The first week I filled it with silverbeet, the second I contributed a big cabbage, and the third week - it wasn’t there.
Yesterday I ran into the woman organising it, and she said that whenever she put the box out, someone took it away. They had also taken down the signs she had posted explaining the scheme. “Someone,” she said “doesn’t like what I’m doing.”
Who? Which of the lovely Italian and Greek migrants, the young couples with kids, the polyglot gardeners among us, is so mean? Why the prejudice, the bitterness?
I find it quite disturbing.
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