Trabajar la tierra, el ‘cultivo’ de sí y del ambiente

This paper aims to analyze the everyday practices of people who participate in community gardens in Brazil and Argentina, exploring the meanings and interpretations attributed to them. It seeks to deepen the understanding of how relationships between humans and nature, and between humans and society, are conceived, as well as to identify the role played by notions such as food sovereignty and agroecology within these practices. The data were constructed from 34 semi-structured interviews conducted during 2021 and 2022, adopting a lived (non)religion perspective. It is argued that these everyday practices contribute to the construction of a shared space and ethic: those who take part in the gardens enact this ethic through working with the soil and inhabiting the community garden according to collective and horizontal logics. In this sense, the notion of nature reconfigures relational modes, grounded in respect, care, and the recognition of oneself as part of it.