7 Point Plan:
Planting Seeds of Change
7 Steps. 7 steps from concrete jungle to Gangsta Garden.
Education + Resource Sharing
Offer workshops and skillshares in the community, giving folks a chance to learn and share about ways to live better with the land.
2. Build Community
Put on events in the community, and give us an opportunity to come together. Start a neighborhood garden club as a hub for liberation on the land.
3. Build Capacity
organize our people, and put our plans down on paper. determine what we need to move forward. acquire funding and support.
4. Neighborhood Restoration
Community-wide guerilla gardening, lawn replacement, and native plant nurseries. Communal tending of the land.
5. Expansion
Continued education, seedsharing, skillsharing, restoration. Networking with other land projects in the city, region and nation.
6. Formalization
Creation of formal anchor institutions, including formal garden clubs and connecting to other local land projects.
7. Independence
Fully thriving, independent food system in the middle of Inglewood. Small-scale farming, big-scale vision.
These steps are just the first draft, informed by thousands of other Black folks trying to get free. Thousands more of us will help shape and mold it to our needs.