I am a PhD student in Anthropology at Queen's University Belfast. My research is positioned at the intersections of environmental anthropology and multispecies ethnography.  I explore how community growing projects in Northern Ireland challenge traditional nature/culture (Descola and Pálsson, 1996) and urban/rural dichotomies, and rethink what it means to live in a collaborative community with others – human and non-human alike. Indeed, these sites are particularly interesting spaces for anthropological research not only because of their growing popularity, but because of their potential to produce social change and offer alternative community-making practices for the Anthropocene. Through this approach I will engage in an ethnographic study of gardening dynamics around which communities are made, while also paying attention to the ways in which permaculture principles and knowhow is shared and practiced. I ask how ideas about good gardening are changing, and how this goes hand in hand with changing ideas about multispecies community.