A field for the cultivation of alternative maps to free the potato from its scientific and colonial ties. The potato is a multi-world. Tracing it back through its colonial history is an act to reveal the bland and domesticated language with which we have come to know nature; and the use of geography as a political tool to alter the inertness and agency of beings and bodies to create a distinction between human and non-human. Botanical gardens are ‘contact zones’ of this conflict; as sites that are looking to diversify the way we talk about plants while still bounded by their physical and historical ties to the science of empire. These are the sites we must now situate ourselves within to unlearn the governance of nature from a human-centred world. The Kinnomic Botanical Garden is a parallel site; tethered from Kew Gardens to challenge the Scientific classifications of the potato. Operating through a series of ‘cartifacts’ – alternative cartographic artefacts – we cultivate a method of mapping that reveals the many interrelated but not always complementary ways of knowing nature; and build a social structure of mapmaking that relies on participation to grow and sustain.