I've been following this with interest. I wonder if some of the ACGA workshop and materials on community building would be helpful, in the context of building community and valuing the diversity of a community and the importance of setting garden practices that are supportive of the various community residents.
Gardeners might be more likely to attend a broadly-themed workshop on building community, and get some of the same benefits as one focused specifically on race and culture I also wanted to comment that a friend told me an insightful story about feeling unwelcome in a community garden because of cultural differences. First, she brought rice and beans with chicken to a potluck before realizing that the group was mostly vegan/vegetarian and felt some icy reactions. She laughed it off as the nature of potluck.... But then, even more significantly, mandatory garden meetings were being held on Sunday mornings, which was impossible for her because of Sunday morning church services. She mentioned some tension around whether she spent enough time in the garden too, and that she eventually gave up her spot in the garden. She's very savvy about the shifting demographics of her neighborhood and told me the story with amazement at the irony of the situation -- ironic that a group of community-minded gardeners so totally missed the chance to be inclusive toward her as a long-time neighborhood resident. Jennifer Leonard The Skills Library 781-321-7894 Web: http://skillslibrary.com Email: jleon...@skillslibrary.com Blog: http://skillspages.com/blog On Tue, Feb 9, 2016 at 6:09 PM, Sari Albornoz < s...@sustainablefoodcenter.org> wrote: > Thanks so much, Tepfirah! I actually attended one of the People’s > Institute’s Undoing Racism trainings and found it very impactful and > helpful. > > I love the idea of having monthly meetings that provide a context to > discuss race in the food system. Do these meetings take place at individual > community gardens, or at a central location? What kind of support does the > People’s Institute provide? Are gardeners incentivized or required in some > way to participate? I ask because I imagine that folks who are already > interested in dismantling racism might self-select to participate—and I > imagine that oftentimes the folks carrying out unintentionally racist or > culturally insensitive actions might not. > > Also, one challenge I feel faced with when thinking about starting > conversations about race and racism at community gardens is that many times > people come to the conversation without a shared level of awareness about > the issue (a shared vocabulary, awareness of the historical underpinnings > of racism in the US, self-awareness as racial/cultural beings). The > People’s Institute’s Undoing Racism training, and also another training in > which I’ve participated—which have effectively brought participants to a > place where we can start to have constructive conversations about > race/racism—were both quite long and intense. This feels like a significant > barrier in the context of community gardens. How do we get over this > barrier to get to that baseline of shared understanding? > > I realize this is quite a big question, but I’d love to hear more about > your experience, and what has and hadn’t worked well! Anyone else, too! > > Thanks again, > Sari > > > Healthy food is for everyone. Give today and grow a strong local food > community that benefits us all »< > https://secure3.convio.net/food/site/Donation2?df_id=1940&1940.donation=form1 > > > > > [cid:image001.jpg@01D1635C.954BAA00] > > Sari Albornoz > Grow Local Program Director > > Sustainable Food Center > 2921 E. 17th Street, Building C > Austin, TX 78702 > 512-220-1087 (voice) > 512-236-0098 (fax) > > s...@sustainablefoodcenter.org<mailto:s...@sustainablefoodcenter.org> > www.sustainablefoodcenter.org<http://www.sustainablefoodcenter.org> > > [cid:image002.jpg@01D1635C.954BAA00]<http://buylocalcentex.org/> > > > [cid:image003.jpg@01D1635C.954BAA00]< > http://www.charitynavigator.org/index.cfm?bay=search.summary&orgid=15395#.Vms3StIrK1t > >[cid:image004.png@01D1635C.954BAA00]< > https://www.facebook.com/SustainableFoodCenter> > [cid:image005.png@01D1635C.954BAA00] <http://twitter.com/#!/SFClocal> > [cid:image006.png@01D1635C.954BAA00] <http://instagram.com/sfclocal> > [cid:image007.png@01D1635C.954BAA00] <http://pinterest.com/sfclocal/> > [cid:image010.png@01D1635C.954BAA00] < > https://www.youtube.com/user/sfclocal> > [cid:image011.png@01D1635C.954BAA00] < > http://sustainablefoodcenter.org/donate> > > > Sustainable Food Center cultivates a healthy community by strengthening > the local food system and improving access to nutritious, affordable food. > > > > > From: Tepfirah Rushdan [mailto:tepfi...@gmail.com] > Sent: Saturday, February 06, 2016 4:59 PM > To: Sari Albornoz > Cc: sabrinasjop...@gmail.com; community_garden@list.communitygarden.org > Subject: Re: [Community_garden] Diversity/Inclusivity/Racial Justice > Resources for Community Gardens? > > > Peace. In Detroit we started uprooting racism planting g justice, an org > that hosts monthly mtgs to discuss race in our food system. Our work is > supported by trainings from the peoples institute I. New Orleans. > > T. Rushdan > The Greening of Detroit > Director of Urban Agriculture > On Feb 4, 2016 2:52 PM, "Sari Albornoz" <s...@sustainablefoodcenter.org > <mailto:s...@sustainablefoodcenter.org>> wrote: > Hi All, > Does anyone have experience with efforts to foster racial and cultural > inclusivity in the context of community gardens, and if so, would you be > willing to share with me about your experience and about any > materials/strategies you used? > Sabrina Santos Joplin (copied) is Latina and helped found a garden in a > predominantly, but not exclusively caucasian neighborhood. She and other > garden members have witnessed and experienced some ignorant comments and > actions by garden members (e.g., asking one of the black founders if he was > the groundskeeper), and Sabrina is interested in taking a proactive stance > by forming a committee to strategize about how to ensure that the garden > grows as a place where people of color and people from multiple cultures > feel welcome and are integral to the garden's culture. > Any resources or insights would be much appreciated! > Best, > Sari > > Healthy food is for everyone. 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