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title: What is a Garden?
tags:
  - glossary
  - misc
date: 2023-08-23
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# Definitions
> A digital garden is an online space at the intersection of a notebook and a blog, where digital gardeners share seeds of thoughts to be cultivated in public.
> 
> \- [Le Cunff](https://nesslabs.com/digital-garden-set-up)

> A garden is a collection of evolving ideas...
> 
>They're inherently exploratory – notes are linked through contextual associations.
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>No one owns *The Official Definition* of digital gardening.
>
> \- [Appleton](https://maggieappleton.com/garden-history) (emphasis in original)

These two are the definitions I most commonly subscribe to, as they very closely track the reasons [[Essays/why-i-garden|Why I Garden]].