Ahmet’s Plot

Private Garden

Ahmet Caglar
Ahmet Caglar

Ahmet Caglar grows food in his back garden in Walthamstowe. “I’m using my back garden for this project. It’s a small garden. Actually there is only one raised bed and some containers. I work as a counsellor, and in two of my work places I work in the garden with clients. Gardening facilitates a lot of positive things in the work and in their world because it’s a process. It’s about life. It’s about growth and death and decay, which is all together. And when they see it, when we see it together, in the garden throughout seasons, it’s more valuable and important than talking about it as a kind of theory. Also being active, doing things outside, working in the soil, with soil, these things can change moods easily.”