Love your Earth,
love your garden
I am a passionate gardener dedicated to making York a sustainable, resilient community. I am particularly excited by encouraging people to grow their own organic food & planting beautiful, biodiverse gardens for our struggling local wildlife. I stood for the Green Party at the local elections in 2019 when I was a student at the University of York, & am committed to fighting for social & ecological justice though activism, mutual-aid & community organisation.
In these dark times, love, empathy & solidarity are our strengths.
About me
My Beliefs
Gardening is more than just a job for me. I passionately believe that we must fix our relationship with nature in order to avoid the imminent catastrophic consequences of climate breakdown such as extreme weather, food shortages, more pandemics and mass extinction. Our politicians are lying about the dangers we face, and we have to act now. I want York to be an example to the world of how to build back better and create a sustainable, resilient community. ✊🌍💚
How You Can Help
Book an appointment
Book an appointment for gardening work, odd jobs and landscaping. Or just feel free to get in touch if you fancy a chat, I am always looking to expand my community network!
Join the Seed. Collective
You can get involved today & join a group of change-makers, a network strong enough to build community resilience to climate breakdown and go carbon neutral by 2030, as well as bettering the quality of life of all our neighbours.
Educate, organise!
In the coming months I hope to put together a list of useful resources for living sustainably and equitably, as well as engaging in the world’s big issues as a compassionate citizen.
Testimonials
What People Say
“Can highly recommend Patrick he did my garden and what a difference
Sarah – Tang Halltakes such care in his work”
“Great work on my hedges”
John Doe
My essays
- The Case For World Communalism: How Can Reconciling the Local and the Global Build Resilience to Climate Breakdown and Emancipate Humanity?Word count: 9653 Abstract Humanity faces ecological collapse and the worst levels of suffering in history as billions find themselves without food, homes, or security on a heating planet. Murray Bookchin’s theory of Social Ecology and prescription of Communalism offer concrete proposals for how Direct-Democracy at the local level can build resilience to climate breakdown,Continue reading “The Case For World Communalism: How Can Reconciling the Local and the Global Build Resilience to Climate Breakdown and Emancipate Humanity?”
- What changes to current patterns of energy production and consumption can help us progress towards sustainability?Abstract:Current patterns of energy production and consumption are shaped by the greed and power of the fossil fuel industry and the relentless consumerism of late stage Capitalism. The resulting carbon emissions have risen exponentially and are causing catastrophic global heating, destabilising our climate and destroying the ecosystems we depend upon to feed ourselves and survive.Continue reading “What changes to current patterns of energy production and consumption can help us progress towards sustainability?”
- ‘The Anglo-liberal growth model is fatally flawed but difficult to change.’ Discuss.Abstract The Anglo-liberal growth model has been a disastrous project that has brought austerity, debt and wage stagnation to millions. In addition to the undeniable human cost of decades of economic policy orientated at protecting the finance sector, there has been an unforgiveable environmental cost that now poses a direct existential threat the future ofContinue reading “‘The Anglo-liberal growth model is fatally flawed but difficult to change.’ Discuss.”
