3 Stories About Gardens & Gardening
If you start digging through folktale collections, you'll notice there are a lot of stories about food and gardening. Like, a lot.
Is it any wonder? Throughout human history, gardens have sustained our bodies and stories have sustained our hearts.
But that connection looks a little different now. We have grocery store aisles full of packaged food and Netflix at our finger tips. While I appreciate and use both of these things, I also recognize the importance of knowing and growing our food sources and surrounding ourselves in nature, each other, and story. As a 21st century storyteller, I get especially excited about the role I am able to play in keeping the connection between garden and story alive.
Knowing folktales that feature gardens and gardening is an excellent way to inspire a deeper connection with our food sources and the historical and cultural importance of growing food, whether you have your own green/garden space or participate or use common green spaces like parks or community gardens.
Here's a list of 3 gardening folktales and their online written sources, so that the next time you're out in a green space you can remember or tell these stories and watch the fun "grow"!
A folktale from Khazikstan
A folktale from West Africa
A folktale from Russia
This is just a very, very short list of stories to get you inspired towards storytelling in gardening/green spaces! There's a trove of other stories out there- do you have a garden story that you know? Leave it in the comments and we can create our own little community garden of stories right here in this space!
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