curated by Melissa Hilliard Potter for the 2017 growing season

This garden is dedicated to offering pleasure to women, whose bodies, personal lives, and economic choices are under siege by global fascist forces. As the primary caregivers and second-class citizens of our society, there is little, if any time for women’s sheer and simple enjoyment. Ancient female shamen and witches explored psychotropic plants and fungi for visions into worlds unknown. In the legacy of feminist utopian fiction--from Charlotte Perkins Gillman’s Herland to Octavia Butler’s vision of gender-free societies--this garden offers psychic space to acknowledge our fear of the present, and explore the theme of pleasure as a radical antidote to misogyny. These powerful plants of pleasure also provide awesome visual beauty and hypnotic fragrances.