NA LUBOG' (SUNKEN) GARDEN AND 'CHILDREN OF THE SUN & EARTH'

by Esther Callinawan

The documentary footage of the Woodstock Festival, describes a moment when a US 1969 music event became synonymous with counter-culture and political resistance. ‘Peace, love, music and drugs’ became a frame into which ‘alternative’ behaviour manifested, politically and culturally catalysing the call for the decriminalisation of drugs, the emergence of hippie-modernism and guerrilla gardening. The Na Lubog, or sunken, garden and Children of the Sun & Earth community, are proposals for projects that manifest radical ecological enterprise in Southwark. Na Lubog garden is a public space, which will offer Borough a herbal and hallucinogenic pharmaceutical dispensary, discrete health clinics and herbarium as living archive. The Children of the Sun & Earth Community, embodies the principle of gardening as a key form of social therapy, provides homes for the resident artist/guerrilla gardeners managing Na Lubog’s facilities, a school for herbal support for Covid-19 and ‘FeedyourownforCorona’ home-growing community centre for advice and support.