By Elena Durazo “I refuse to politicize the process of growing food,” Mark Davis tells me with an assertive shake of his head. “I hold a strong disdain for that.” Yet, he says, “what we are doing is inherently radical, in the context we are in.” Davis is the founder and head farmer at Read more about Real Roots[…]
By Evelyn Zelmer We sit in what used to be a church parking lot, on stumps that used to be trees, surrounded by the promise of everything that is still to come. Across from me is an urban farmer named Luz, the co-lead here at Brook Road Youth Farm, an educational community garden site that Read more about Feeding the Future[…]
By Evelyn Zelmer After receiving a gardening task from farm-site manager Senija Davis, I use my bare hand to overturn decaying logs and unlock the soft mounds of compost beneath them— remnants of plant material, wood chunks and bits of bark, that are decaying back into the earth. In doing so, I disturb the slumber Read more about Dirt Therapy[…]