Sean M. Ferguson, "Walking ferguson dumping waste leaves as mulch", contributed by Sean M. Ferguson, Critical Pedagogy in Action: Building a Walking Classroom and Walking Teacher Global Community, STS Infrastructures, Platform for Experimental Collaborative Ethnography, last modified 9 June 2022, accessed 8 November 2024. https://stsinfrastructures.org/content/walking-ferguson-dumping-waste-leaves-mulch
Critical Commentary
HOPE uses a regenerative gardening technique they derived from what they have learned from scavenging in the forest and regenerative gardening experts. Leaves are donated to them and serve the purpose of killing off the grass to be replaced by degraded leaf mulch over time. They will pile the leaves and some cardboard high, this material enriches what is usually sterile grass lawn soil, typical poor quality earth in urban America.