A garden is a source of food, and thus survival. Though Western landscaping practices historically framed gardens as symbols of class and control over the environment (see Anand), other forms of community-driven gardening show that they can be places of multifaceted growth, spontaneity, interspecies collaboration, and healing. Indigenous gardening practices are integral to maintaining cultural teachings and resisting colonialism (see The Forest Curriculum; Gordo), while diasporic gardeners can cultivate connections to their homelands (Asimakis). As access to food and land continues to be unequally distributed, gardens serve as spaces of political action (see weeds; food desert).