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Through guerilla gardening we facilitate discussions about racism and bring awareness to the displacement of Black and Indigenous People of Color (BIPOC) from their land.
This Sunday Sept 8 >> let’s gather in the garden, to share good food and discuss the ways we can work to build resistance into our everyday lives. After that we will harvest and w**d, save seeds, and prepare beds for the fall and winter.
Same schedule as last event! See y’all in the sun 🌞
Appreciation Post 🤩 Thank you Chef Carmen for always cooking from your heart and soul and sharing the most delicious creations with everyone. Catch our next Sunday gathering with a full spread from Chef Carmen this Sunday Sept 8 from 12-4PM 🔥
And thank you to and for hooking it up with the produce!
REPOST: Support in Letter Writing to Women Prisoners this Sunday with Samidoun Seattle 📨
Join us at Cal Anderson Park near the Farmer’s Market 12pm - 3pm (drop in any time) to write letters to Palestinian prisoners incarcerated by the Zionist occupation. Given META repression of the Palestine movement and Samidoun, our Instagram and FB accounts have been taken down. Spread the word for this event and follow us on Telegram!
In response to the call to make August 3rd, the 300th day of the ongoing siege on Gaza, International Day of Action for Gaza and the Prisoners, we hope to come together in solidarity with the prisoners’ struggle. Zionist prisons are known for torture, starvation, and abuse, and used by occupation forces in futile attempts to break the Palestinian spirit and the resistance, but the Palestinian Prisoners’ Movement remains on the frontline of the liberation struggle.
No experience needed - bring yourself, friends, comrades, and your belief that we will soon win a Free Palestine.
Long live the Palestinian Resistance and Free Palestine!
This Sunday! Join us from 12-4PM at New Holly Rockery Market Garden for our August Second Sunday gathering. In addition to our monthly programming, we will be hosting our friends from Samid0un (follow their telegram! eff meta for banning them yet again!) to do an echo letter writing action for Palestinian prisoners.
Thank you Chef Carmen from for always bringing the most delicious spread 🤤
Invitation for New Holly Garden Day TODAY from approx 1-4PM per usual; at 2PM we will join the call from for a national day of mourning for Sonya Massey and hold vigil and sharing circle while we tend the garden together to make space for collective processing and dialogue. Please bring any pictures, flowers, altar items, etc. to honor Sonya’s life.
*Please note that this is not our monthly gathering; on the off-weeks we still gather to tend the garden together without the event vibes and big food spread. Please dress appropriately for the weather, bring water and snacks for yourself and to share if you’d like. Hand tools, gardening gloves, and a bag to bring home harvest are all helpful but not a barrier for attending! Today will be different as we will collectively hold space for Sonya Massey at 2PM.
TWO EVENTS TODAY ⏩️⏩️⏩️ See y’all out there 🔥
1️⃣ Anti-Imperialist Qu**rs for Palestine Panel 🏳️🌈🇵🇸TODAY 3-6PM Join local anti-imperialist organizations in Seattle for a panel, discussion & picnic to deepen our analysis of the roots of our oppression as q***r people, & how this relates to the struggle to free Palestine! Zoom option available!
REGISTER: Linktr.ee/Q4Pal
2️⃣ Bark Harvest & Cordage Skillshare
TODAY 1-4PM New Holly Garden Come learn how to forage, harvest, and create cordage with our homies from 🤩 Sign up at the link in their bio.
***rsforpalestine
Thankful for the opportunity to host and share the powerful story of youth organizers in Chicago. The youth will lead the way into our liberated future! No Cop Academies! Fund Our Communities! 🔥
And now that we’ve got the set up - more movie nights to come! Drop your recommendations for environmental / climate / racial justice / food & land sovereignty related films, or if you are a producer and want to collab for a screening - shoot us a DM!
Rest in Power to Sonya Massey. Cops don’t keep anyone safe, least of all Black and Brown and poor people living with neurodivergence as a result of this exploitative capitalistic world. The horrifying murder of Sonya Massey, Daniel Prude, Walter Wallace Jr., Janisha Fonville, and countless others, in their homes, in front of their mothers, babies, and partners, shows that the police system cannot and will not ever be reformed. Organizing towards the abolition of the police state and the total overturn of this imperialist global order is the ONLY way we will be able to achieve liberation for all of us.
This is why we call for - not here in Lacey, WA, not in the West Side of Chicago, not in the Weelaunee Forest in Atlanta, and NOT IN PALESTINE.
From movie (showing tonight at 7:30PM in New Holly (outdoors) or on Friday with ): “The majority [of us] have been pleading for investments in education, employment, housing, mental health clinics, and y’all have thrown at us a $95 million police academy that will do nothing for the community of Garfield Park. You are implementing a thing that is going to continue [to] over-criminalize Black folks.”
Through the film, the youth organizers of and Mariame Kaba call all of us to action - what we will do now? Will we organize our communities to fight? Will we refuse the apathy that overwhelms the need for more of us to be engaged in struggle?
We look forward to the discussion tonight.
On July 24 at 7:30PM at New Holly Rockery Market Garden, we will host a screening of No Cop Academy, a documentary about Black youth and other youth of color organizers in Chicago mobilizing against Rahm Emanuel’s plans to spend $95 million dollar for a massive training center for Chicago police on the city’s West Side. The campaign composed of 104 organizations, refused any expansion of policing in Chicago, and demanded that the city fund youth and communities instead.
This one-hour documentary chronicles the explosive campaign through first hand experiences. Fund Communities! Abolish the Police! From Seattle to Chicago to Atlanta, to Haiti, Congo, Sudan and a FREE PALESTINE!
There will be a panel discussion after the film with the directors from 🔥
Content warning for visuals and discussion of police violence.
English & Spanish captions available.
Please test for COVID prior to coming to the screening. We will be outdoors, masking is nevertheless always encouraged. If you have any sick symptoms, please stay home!
is also hosting a screening on Friday July 26th at Washington Hall!
Excited to be in connection with SoapBox Productions and Organizing - - their mission is “to utilize media to power, frame, and sustain social movements that advance holistic solutions to root problems. In tandem with grassroots organizing efforts for racial, economic, and social justice, SoapBox delivers emotional impact storytelling for liberation. We produce documentaries, fiction films, podcasts, articles, and community-based programming that intend to educate, agitate, inspire, and ultimately transform.”
Share widely and join us next Wednesday!
Tending a garden - like we tend to our relationships as we collectively organize for a more equitable world - requires gentleness, discernment, discipline, patience, ritual, study, and practice. Come learn with us 🌱🫘
See you for our July gathering this Sunday from 12-4PM 🌻🌽🫘
See y’all on Sunday! July 21 from 12-4PM ☀️ New Holly Rockery Market Garden (Searchable on Google Maps!)
Join us this month on THIRD SUNDAY JULY 21 at New Holly Rockery Market Garden (address on second slide) for our large gathering. We will continue discussion of the interconnected roles necessary for social change and how it mirrors the interconnected roles of companion plants in the garden 🔥🫘🌽🌻
Radish harvest from May & June was big abundance! We had roasted radishes, radish with tacos, radish on pizza, radish on salad (slide 3, thank you to Chef Carmen from ), and Chinese preserved radish (slide 4) to add to all the stirfry and congee and savory sandwiches! 🤤🤤🤤
What spring crops do you have in abundance? What recipes have you gotten into this season with your harvest?
The garden always has sooo much to share. Come join us on Sundays at New Holly 1-4PM. DM to let us know if you plan to pull up 🥳
Our July gathering will be on July 21 (Third Sunday this month!) - post coming soon!
Community Requests 💗 As we transition away from grants, we need community support to gather material needs for the garden! Please consider donating any mulch, burlap, or straw to help our food growing efforts at New Holly Rockery Market Garden. Direct drops of materials at New Holly preferred! Otherwise donations are always appreciated. DM to coordinate.
Venmo:
Cashapp: $blackstarfarmers
Seed art progress 🤩🫘🌽🎃
Join us this Sunday June 9th 12:30-4:30PM as we continue to tend to our Milpa planting. We will deepen into our learning about intercropping and water conservation methods. These will be increasingly important skills to cultivate as we navigate ongoing climate crisis.
As we reflect on the interconnected relationships of the corn, beans, and squash sisters, we will also discuss the interconnectedness of our roles for social change within our human ecosystems as well as the interconnectedness of our local struggles to the struggles for liberation across the globe.
What role do you play in social change? Are you a builder? A storyteller? A nurturer? All roles are needed.
Chef Carmen will be preparing a delicious meal! Snacks or drinks to share are always welcome. Please bring a water bottle and check on the weather. Hand tools & garden gloves are helpful to bring if you have them!
We are also excited to celebrate .revolution Resiliency Laboratory students for the completion of the community shed! We will open the floor for them to reflect on their experiences around 1PM.
The garden is at S Holly Park Dr and 40th Ave S
Accessible by Bus 36, 50, 106 and Link Train (Othello)
Event Schedule
12:30PM Arrive, Eat, Commune
1:00PM Opening Circle & .revolution
2:00PM Unpack Social Change Ecosystem Model
2:30PM Weeding & Planting in our Milpa Beds
4:00PM Clean up & Harvest
4:30PM Closing Circle
What companions have you planted this season? In your garden or in your community?
we were blessed with sun at our may gathering 😎
and also bc of the sun + our watering system needing repair… we chose not to transplant our milpa babies in the early may heat.
instead, we engaged in dialogue and learning about la milpa, why this method of interplanting is beneficial for the plants and the soil, and all the different planting patterns practiced by various Indigenous peoples from the Wampanoag to the Maya people in Mesoamerica.
have you planted a milpa garden before? what methods/patterns did you use, and what were the results?
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big thank you to chef jacob for the delicious stirfry and fried rice and to everyone for the snacks, food, flowers, and altar offerings yall brought to share 💗
our collective altar to honor our mothers, from the mothers and mother figures in our own lives to the mothers in Palestine, Haiti, Congo, Sudan, the Philippines, and all over the world. grief & hope, held together amongst the mugwort.
what can we learn from our mothers?
from our ultimate mother, earth.
nourishing us despite the neglect, the destruction.
the definition of unconditional love.
the altar feels at home amongst the mugwort in the corner of the new holly garden. mugwort is a powerful medicinal herb and sacred plant in many indigenous cultures. mugwort invites us into deeper consciousness and is often used to assist in times of grief and death, as well as birth and healing.
have you worked with mugwort before? what is your favorite way to engage with this powerful healer?
currently, I am using mugwort topically in infused oil to help with lower back pain after giving birth and mugwort root decoction in a bath tea. along with other anti-inflammatory herbs like chamomile, calendula, and yarrow, mugwort has helped me avoid breast engorgement. ~steph
Join us to honor our mothers on Sunday at New Holly Rockery Market Garden from 1-4PM after shutting it down on Saturday for Palestine with
All donations we receive the week of May 12 will be donated directly to families in Palestine (through the list shared in bio)
Venmo
CashApp $blackstarfarmers
Label as “mothers”
this was a hole in the ground less than two months ago! .revolution and their students are so impressive 🤩 grateful for all the energy and work y’all bring to the new holly garden 🔥
the shed will be finished in June and will include spaces to share seeds, distribute free produce, exchange garden tips, and publicize community events. on the back wall will be a pollinator habitat for the bees and butterflies 🦋🌼🐝
slide 1 ft shed progress + doggo
slide 2 ft epic shade shelter sawhorse built in 2023
slides 3 & 4 spring seedlings 🌱
we were blessed with some early sun for our April gathering & we and all our solanaceae are looking forward to a little early heat this weekend 🥵
in april we welcomed the Four Directions and shared stories of our connection to the plant world.
we transplanted starts and experimented with different growing techniques. in one half of the beds, we did a standard planting method, and in the other half, we encouraged folks to experiment with new techniques!
tending the land is a constant learning journey, encouraging us to study our process and engage in praxis - action and reflection - throughout the season and from year to year. and when we learn to tend the land, we learn how to better tend to our communities.
slide 2 - we used excess seed saved from prior seasons to create a seed mural. once complete it will be set in resin 🤩 keep posted for the reveal 👀
what spring seeds have you planted so far?
Mutual aid continuing in the park to support each other and our unhoused neighbors. People gathering energy to do pancake breakfast on New Years Day (Monday) as well, if you have ability to support with in-person presence, food, or funds for any of these options please DM so we can get you connected with the various individuals and groups leading these efforts.
A word from the BLMG collective as we mourn the loss of the physical garden. This is just the beginning.
Updated weekly schedule coming soon. Intention to continue mutual aid events and gatherings in the park as usual. The garden lives on 🌱
If you were present for the destruction of the garden yesterday, or if you have a deep connection to the garden in some way, please DM any photos, videos, quotes, or stories that you’re down to share. This garden was not built and maintained by any one person and is not represented by any one single voice; we want to share about the collective work that has kept the garden thriving for the last three years.
People will be gathering for a lil Winter Solstice Celebration at the Black Lives Memorial Garden on Thursday around 6:30PM after the Women in Black Vigil (see slide 2 & recent post).
What to Bring (all optional):
-treats and hot drinks
-cups/bowls/plates/utensils are always helpful; if you can bring your own reusables that is always ideal
-song or poetry or words
-warm clothes for a free boutique
-a winter offering that is compostable or will be brought back home with you
*This is a simple, organic gathering without any central hosts - please be responsible for what you decide to bring and join each other in cleaning up at the end.
During this time in which nature intends us to be resting, please contribute only what you have already, and share energy only within your capacity.
If only we could simply enjoy views like these when we’re on the ground in the mornings. But no, we - the BLMG community - are consistently threatened with state violence thru inhumane and debilitating sweeps during cold, wet, winter weather. End winter sweeps! End sweeps period - all people deserve to have their basic needs met PERIOD - not given the smallest access as a stipulation for accepting the most menial of services this city has to offer.
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Join folks at the garden in the morning tomorrow Friday 12/15 @ 7:30AM. Share to homies!
Over 15,000 Palestinians have been killed since Oct 7 - over 6,000 children and 4,000 women. At least 36,000 additional people are injured, 75% are women and children.
How SHAMEFUL that this ongoing genocide is being funded by our government and corporations, by our votes and our dollars.
We stand with Palestine in demanding an end to the violent occupation by the Israeli government and military forces and an end to the genocide.
No child, no family, no HUMAN should be subject to this level of dehumanization, cruelty, and endless violence.
On Friday - while much of America frenzied in material gluttony - we gathered in solidarity and protest in the garden to create coffin props for the weekly march hosted by
So much heaviness in our hearts and minds as we built these pieces, but grateful to be creating together in resistance of these violent capitalist systems with such a dedicated and caring community.
This Friday! NO shopping while bombs are dropping. We’ll be in the garden making props to support the Saturday protest for a free Palestine on 11/25 at 2PM @ Westlake. Organizers requested that people bring child size coffins to leave in front of the federal building in protest of the over 5,000 children martyred in Palestine.
We will be supplying as many materials as we can source, but please bring your own additional materials that you can and anything to share as well.
BLMG @ NOON on Friday 11/24
BOYCOTT BLACK FRIDAY
Follow for additional local actions and info.
Update from the sweeps on Nov 14 & 15. Please see and for additional accounts about this despicable action by the city. An additional point to share: The city swept encampments in three places (that we know of) on Wednesday knowing there were only 4 tiny homes available. At Cal Anderson, residents were given ONE HOUR notice. SPR Field Coordinator Kareem and two others were escorted by 16 cops, including one lieutenant. We condemn this continued violence against unhoused people across the city and demand a ban on extreme weather sweeps!
Cops and SPR came early this morning at around 7AM to post this obstruction notice for people to be out by 8AM. Sweep is happening now, please come to Cal if you can.
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First seed starting session (2/26) Over 1,000 seeds planted 🌱 Now to lovingly care for these seed babies daily until they are big enough to go in our gardens 💚 We want to see what you’re starting this season! Share in comments and tag us in your posts and stories so we can continue growing our community as we collectively grow our seeds. #blackstarfarmers #blackfarmersmatter #landback #indigenousfarmers #qtbipocfarmers #transfarmers #nonbinaryfarmers #bipocfarmers #pocfarmers #seedstarting #plantingseason #springiscoming #decolonizetheland
Starting today at 5PM PST! We will be envisioning a world #beyondthegenderbinary with @alokvmenon book as a resource. No need to have read beforehand - everyone is welcome! Please forward to interested community members. See you in a few hours!
Today’s @illwilleditions article discussion on the role of the white proletariat in the 2020 uprising and beyond starts soon @ 2PM PST ‼️ Please share with interested community members and tune in, even if it’s just to listen 👀👂🏽 Article and zoom links are both in our bio.
⚠️ REVISED ⚠️ Tuesday’s event will be a Greenhouse Renovation Project at Che Fico Garden (2429 S Walker St) ⚒ Tuesday Dec 14 from 12-4 PM: Come learn about the purpose and structure of greenhouses and how to replace plastic coverings. Bring gloves, water and a snack. Dress for the weather & COVID mindfulness. *Four volunteers appreciated* More info coming soon! Alt Text: Revised Events Next Week Greenhouse Renovation Project Tuesday | Dec 14 | 12-4 PM Che Fico Garden (2429 S Walker St) Article Discussion with BSF White Race Traitors and the 2020 Uprising Thursday | Dec 16 | 2-4PM | Zoom Book Discussion with BSF Beyond the Gender Binary by @alokvmenon Friday | Dec 17 | 5-7PM | Zoom
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