"Plant the tree of friendship and harvest the fruits of love
Uproot the roots of hatred for it brings forth boundless agony"
– Hafez
“We bury our seeds and wait,
Winter blocks the road,
Flowers are taken prisoner underground,
But then green justice tenders a spear”
- Rumi
A vibrant community outreach program, door by door and block by block, can initiate the broad community participation and support we need to have a big impact. Imagine groups of local residents learning and working together to create beautiful and abundant gardens and communty spaces in local parks, medians, empty lots, and backyards...such a thing is only possible
"Revolution is based on land. Land is the basis of all independence.
Land is the basis of freedom, justice, and equality"
- Malcolm X
We build urban food forests. Our urban food forest program produces low-cost, organic, nutritious food in communities that structurally have little access to it. We help empower urban residents to create sustainable, replicable gardens that demonstrate how it is possible to grow a complete nutritional diet safely and profitably in the city.
“The recovery of the people is tied to the recovery of food,
since food itself is medicine: not only for the body,
but for the soul, for the spiritual connection to history, ancestors, and the land.”
- Winona La Duke
Too often, the "green jobs" conversation is narrowly limited to highly industrial sectors that demand millions and millions of dollars in capital input, inaccessible to a working class person wanting to start a "green" business. The dominant focus is on high-tech “clean energy” sectors, and little attention is paid to the minerals that