Gardening for Social Ills: Feb. 20 Environmental Seminar

Using data from an ongoing community garden project, Mitchell’s talk will offer insights on ideating, creating and using school and community gardens in Montreal, Quebec. With local partners, we have co-created gardens on a university campus, at an underfunded public school, and at two different community organizations that work with youth experiencing homelessness and housing precarity. In this presentation, Mitchell discusses how gardens can address social ills and social and environmental injustice. While there are many social ills, this talk will focus on food (in)security, consumerism, gentrification, and neoliberalism in relation to school and community gardens.

Mitchell McLarnon is a PhD candidate, gardener, beekeeper and lecturer at McGill University. His research interests include social and environmental justice, homelessness, institutional ethnography, participatory visual methodologies, garden-based learning and environmental education. He teaches the only Education for Sustainability graduate-level courses in Quebec and Nova Scotia.

Thursday, Feb. 20
10 a.m.-11:15 a.m.
4C.1

Contact Anna-Liisa Aunio: aaunio@dawsoncollege.qc.ca