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2. The need for seed: News framing of the pandemic gardening boom
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Perks, Lisa Glebatis (author), Gatchet, Amanda Davis (author), and Gatchet, Roger Davis (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2022-08-26
- Published:
- USA: Taylor and Francis
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 205 Document Number: D12633
- Journal Title:
- Environmental Communication
- Journal Title Details:
- V.16, Iss. 4
- Notes:
- 14 pages, Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic in March 2020, the U.S. and other countries around the world saw a dramatic increase in the number of people starting pandemic gardens. In this article, the authors use rhetorical framing analysis to explore how news coverage of this gardening boom presented the illusion of control framed around the themes of economics, food sovereignty, physical and mental health, and community and connection. It concludes with a discussion of how these four themes offer an overly-optimistic view of gardening that deemphasizes sustainability, focuses on processes over harvests, and ignores food chain inequities.