The BIPOC Community Garden- Connecting Food and People through Gardening

[@Robin.Greenfield]

Make a contribution to support the garden and the People’s Medicine Project: www.rootworkherbals.com/contribute Follow them and learn more: Website: www.rootworkherbals.com/bipoc-community-garden Instagram: instagram.com/rootworkherbals/ @rootworkherbals Facebook: facebook.com/rootworkherbals

[@kay6096]

When hitchhiking, always wear shoes Rob.

[@aidamonte]

Hello sir how are you na.for these having so many i know now. Can you give me a banana.? .

[@yettachance]

@robin did you realize this garden is under attack? You should reach out to Amanda

[@jeeraindica]

Here in 2024 watching. Good stuff! Thanks to all who made it possible.

[@marya8974]

It is just such a blessing to have a place for people to gather together and just enjoy God’s beautiful earth

[@missjones8123]

I never heard about Jane Minor till now! Ty for that nugget!

[@peaceandcalm6928]

Wow this is awesome! Nice to learn ofJane Minor.

[@lkelle3]

This is so beautiful. Seeing BIPOC enjoy the outdoors brings so much joy. Love love love

[@anweshpeddineni5802]

I am seeing future through this video. Lots of people are going to do this, including me. Thanks for this Rob.

[@CulinaryGuide]

I love this.

[@andrewbirkett715]

That's amazing. Great way to grow a community and form everlasting friendships through agriculture/gardening.

[@caitlinbrown7597]

What a beautiful place Amanda has created!

[@johnowens5342]

It's BIPOC so you are not welcome there, which is just as inappropriate as a whites only garden in Africa to be free of Black dominated spaces. Racism is never beautiful.

[@cryptoffilth8711]

A wonderful safe space where you can touch flowers without any scary wyte faces around!❤️

[@CorbinDIYVlogs]

What an incredibly racist thing to say. Imagine seeing something written the other way around? How can you not see you’re only perpetuating the problem?

[@cryptoffilth8711]

@@CorbinDIYVlogs Says the hateful wyte lady, lol. You need to learn to listen to people of color and not question us. Your days are over, I understand you don’t want to get off your high horse, but fortunately you no longer have a choice, and we’re not going to be nice about it 😊.

[@starghostly5236]

Im ao happy you are covering these communities its so wonderful

[@kimber-leighdomiano901]

What an amazing community. Education is the key, thx for sharing!

[@playininmyyard]

Thanks for sharing Rob. This is Awesome.👍🏾

[@bernardofitzpatrick5403]

love this concept! This woman is a legend!

[@GardenMyselfHappy]

What a wonderful community and space. The insight into history and how that influences people today is really interesting too. I am hoping to have a bed in a local community garden in Wales, UK this year. But the space and community aspect shone through when I was showed around. I certainly hope to have a change to help it to continue to floriuish.

[@ChantiCalabria]

Amanda is such a radiant being 💗

[@huilesdecarlabathbeauty3044]

This is amazing!!! Thanks for sharing your AWESOME!!!!

[@halyak]

This is a beautiful video and beautiful people doing amazing things. Thank you so much for sharing !

[@kiklein]

Thank you for featuring this project!

[@reubenadams3167]

Love it

[@kplg6]

This is such a beautiful space with such a meaningful purpose. Amanda, you are amazing for creating this space for BIPOC members in your community - I hope to be able to create something like this too in NYC!

[@colbywilliams7595]

What an inspirational human being! Thank you for this wonderful profile. I was happy to see their Indigenous land acknowledgement as well.

[@nadinelacerda3286]

This is beautiful 🤎

[@the_earth_mystic]

This is incredibly beautiful...thank you for doing this. We need more of this.

[@Vegan4life11-11]

AMAZING. LOVE THIS SO MUCH!

[@wildedibles819]

Great job with this garden

[@Butterfly-jt6cr]

Totally inspired! Love it.

[@SKY77713]

Fantastic video! Really inspiring!!

[@katespaulding4563]

i love this so so so so so so so so so so so much

[@irukambanefo7098]

Thanks 🙏 a lot for what you are doing. It’s so beautiful and y’all looks great too

[@tanyapineda7212]

😍💚 absolutely wonderful & inspiring! What a gift to the community!

[@Bb2b75]

Very cool. Such a feel good story.

[@johnowens5342]

Just that your not welcome because you are not BIPOC. I bet your house is one of those bad white dominated spaces they talked about in the video. Community gardens are great, race based garden is racist.

[@penguinchick6563]

Awesome! Thank you for this video! And may God keep blessing her! 👍

[@danid8448]

Love this!

[@lenam2114]

What a fantastic project!

[@lorraineshobajo7648]

JUST BEAUTIFUL! SHOULD BE MORE OF THESE TYPES IF GARDENS IN COMMUNITIES ESPECIALLY WITH THE STATE OF WORLD IS IN NOW! Much NEEDED NOW!

[@selisagrimes9837]

GREAT IDEA!! GOOD LUCK ON YOUR GROWING ENDEAVORS.

[@filipinodutchhome7340]

This is so beautiful, amazing community, I love it

[@LalitNaval]

Sharing is Caring

[@janetbecker4282]

Thank you for sharing, your story, garden and life. My Gma grew up picking cotton as a share cropper surrounded by the stigma of an American Indian father who drank heavily. So she wouldn't talk about growing up in Mississippi. I love working the dirt and learning to grow things naturally without disturbing the earth. I'm in an area of the midwest where large farms of soybeans and corn are destroying our health. I hope 1 day to lead a group of. Young people to explore your progra.. Thank you for sharing

[@naturedegree5671]

Super presentation Friend ☘️🌿💘🍀🍁🍃🍂

[@KhetKhamar_bd]

This is really lovely

[@kie1937]

Just subscribed. Lookking forward to watching your backlog videos and catching up to this one

[@jade_capricorn]

Wonderful video Rob! You said you had more videos like this coming right? BIPOC sustainability is so important and it's so so awesome that you're using your platform to spread awareness of these kinds of projects! Much love.

[@wethepeoplepodcast6098]

Thank you for sharing this!

[@denisestone8491]

Beautiful! We need more around every city. This would be ideal for Louisville Kentucky.💚💙💜🧡❤️❣️

[@davidjohn9006]

👏🏽 bravo ...

[@off-gridsimplyhappyrodriguez]

I would like a list of all the medicine they are growing! 😳🌼🌱☀🌿💚😘

[@ms.g4401]

Awesome 💜🖤

[@uppanadam74]

Not only that...young ppl are learning new skills in this garden!! Something that the government seems too overlook these days!! They should have accredited programs recognising this!!

[@300avocados2]

This is so beautiful and so needed. BIPOC always have to police themselves in this white world a bit of fresh air to be ourselves is needed. Thank you for highliting this

[@garoljames8657]

300 avocados,I agree

[@HighVibingProductions]

I would love to be apart of this beautiful community garden.

[@thoughfullylost6241]

Amazing on every level thank you for showing it and much respect to the way she put a community garden into effect

[@CRHall-ud9mq]

I love this. Besides community being creative in growing food and connecting with the nature of Earth and each other, I have for tens of years now dreamt and shared this dream with others, of community workshops where people of all ages, culture, background, equal and included, exploring and freely learning, inspiring and sharing ideas for social skills and a multitude of other skills. Where all kinds of people are able to work with as many different natural materials as possible to empower and enrich each one and another's lives; there is no end to what people could learn together and from each other, in different areas, in a reused or communally built building with land for gardening and husbandry. A workshop which could be made somewhat self sufficient, but equally supported by businesses that have become successful through the support of local communities, showing good will gestures with donations including waste and surplus materials and tools that can be salvaged and put to good use by these workshops. I pray this dream can be realised and it soulfully infect all communities; it appears the time has come and the future potential may be realised now. Thank you Jane and BIPOC, and to Rob for sharing this wonderful story and such inspiration :-)

[@thisjohn1]

@@calliepygian9093 Nailed it

[@clinkedylinkedy1]

beautiful

[@lovecatspiracy]

I feel so glad that my seed swapping and garden chat circle allows me to join in. I would feel terrible if such an amazing community garden was nearby and I wouldn't be allowed to help it grow. I would seriously miss my black friends if they shut their doors to me because of the color I was born. I am so grateful we grew up in times when Integration was the key to Equality. My life would have been impoverished without ALL of the wonderful people.

[@Sivah_Akash]

Nice to hear that :)

[@300avocados2]

You totally missed the point , didn’t listen to the words and exhibiting signs of white entitlement. We live in a white world where BIPOC are always policing themselves , every other space is a white space, if BIPOC find a small space to just be themselves and have a breather from white supremacy please don’t feel entitled to that space it’s not yours nor should you take offence. Just like there are women only spaces for a reason.

[@Sivah_Akash]

@@300avocados2, maybe I misunderstood you but they welcomed her tho?

[@lovecatspiracy]

@@Sivah_Akash My own seed swap circle is integrated. I am too paleskinned to be welcomed at this garden, even if it were local to me. Strangely, my gratitude got called "white entitlement " and my sadness at the exclusionary nature of this garden got called being "offended." Such is 2020.

[@Sivah_Akash]

@@lovecatspiracy, ya sad. There have been cases where people have been bad because of their "entitlement" but that shouldn't be generalised!

[@alt4374]

Sometimes people of color need spaces where they do not feel like they have to cater to whiteness, which we have to do everywhere at all times, and need places where they don't have to fear being subject to microaggressions like many of the comments under this video. However, it would seem they let Rob in to film and interview so its clearly not the same as segregation. Also, clearly, Rob understands the value of these places, and I appreciate you for highlighting groups like this that give space to BIPOC who are typically left out of the sustainability and growing community, despite the interest of many within that community.

[@lovecatspiracy]

Would you please care to share your definition of "whiteness"? I have read and heard many, I would like to read your take if you don't mind.

[@libbibunni]

thank you for sharing💕

[@answerthecall265]

@@lovecatspiracy melanin deficiency , People who have less Homosapien in their DNA. People whose ancestors did not have to deal with things like sex farms and buck breaking and red lining . People who don’t have to worry about being labeled as having committed suicide By law-enforcement and medical examiners when they’re found hung from a tree in front of an elementary school In Washington so a bunch of little kids could see in the morning walking to school literally in the same town that in 2017 another young man was found hanging from a tree 30 feet high in the woods after missing for six months also labled to suicide, or found hanging From a bridge in Atlanta Georgia With his book bag still on and a chain locked around his chest and body with the key placed in the front pocket of the shirt, Or outside of WalmartIn Georgia, or in their own mothers backyard with their pants rolled down to their anklesWith their face and body all bruised up and beat up and rope marks around the wrists in Ferguson Missouri all of these cases were in 2018 . And those are old . I got a list of at least 30 more people who are even more recent. And I got a list of 50 or more people who are a little bit older cases however still within the past 20 or so years. Whiteness means people who don’t have to deal with crap like that in modern times let alone throughout history that is what whiteness means although I do think using the terms White or black is a little silly because we are notcrayons however the point is people who look like you my dear , Do not have to deal with the same things Melanin Efficient people to have to deal with basically on the daily and The severity of those things that you will never have to deal with will depend on where they live however does not affect you in anyway no matter where you live it’s not just about being offended life is actually dangerous for people who do not look like you ma’am. And believe it or not I am actually a 27-year-old Caucasian woman so you and I are the same as I say these things to you so there is no race card being played here in this particular conversation just to be clear.

[@changestrangers]

"Cater to whiteness"... "microagression"... sounds like special pleading for segregation

[@johnowens5342]

Would it be ok for whites in Africa to make spaces where they do not need to cater to blackness? You do realize Africa is a black dominated space. Any person of any race that discriminates based on color is racist.

[@iLoveToBeM3]

Amazing

[@deepdiver6885]

Superbb mahnnn

[@oliviaj9037]

Personally I think mixed and integrated spaces would be the best end result. But as they say most spaces are white dominated (maybe their area) so I’m glad they can have a space for themselves in a way and their own bi POC community! I think having just white and then just poc spaces could get very... dodgy. White dominated spaces are really where bipoc people and communities are needed the most (so that it’s no longer white dominated). Still, I’m happy for them and I hope the space is joy filled. It just looks like a big group of friends having fun!

[@JordanAK907]

I get what you're saying about not wanting things to be segregated, but this space is for THEM to regenerate and feel safe. To say that white-dominated spaces is where they're needed and therefore where they should be perpetuates the trend of controlling BIPOC people, and making them do all the anti-racist activism work for us. Don't you think they already do that while navigating our white-dominated society every day?

[@oliviaj9037]

@@JordanAK907 yeah I know it’s a space for them and I think that’s great. I said before in happy for them! I meant we need bipoc to be in white dominated spaces so that it’s no longer white dominated. We need bipoc in those areas so that we can combat it. I follow rob to learn, if I am wrong it’s ok. Also yes I’m aware bipoc feel frustrated from having to teach us about the racism we do! And that they want n need a space to be themselves.

[@JordanAK907]

@@oliviaj9037 Thanks for clarifying, it seems like I might've just misunderstood what you had been saying before. I'm glad you understand the things I brought up and that you're willing to learn and be wrong. I'm in the same boat, also just trying to learn and advocate for people of color!

[@oliviaj9037]

@@JordanAK907 ah okay thank you. Yes that’s a good place to be in! Good luck. I am going to continue to learn also : )

[@superg33k12]

easily one of my favorite channels :)

[@alecgurney9305]

♥️

[@tahikotuku]

🌿💚

[@collinolguin5772]

This is amazing do you offer woofing style opportunities by chance

[@barbaraday1]

Someone very wise wrote this: 'The color of you skin is less important than the SPIRIT which moves it'

[@gdibenedetto9877]

TOTALLY AGREE. I am so sick and tired of religion and people separating everybody all the time and these people are doing exactly what they are fighting against by sticking labels on things and excluding people. These people, of all people should understand exclusion. inclusion is the only key to peace upon the land. We have to stop separating each other. BTW. I'm not Caucasian

[@gdibenedetto9877]

So true

[@garoljames8657]

@@gdibenedetto9877 yes I agree but many Caucasians like to remind me I am not Caucasian

[@CorbinDIYVlogs]

@@gdibenedetto9877 I could not agree more. Maybe it’s just because of where I’m from but this seems so counterproductive in bringing everyone together. I don’t understand segregating to “fix” racism. It seems to me as it’s only exasperating the problem. Wouldn’t the solution be that we all love and value each other for our souls, who we are and what we bring to the world? This all seems like it’s just “payback” focused because it’s doing exactly what wasn’t liked just the other way around. I don’t understand how that fixes anything. We should be coming together in love. I’m happy they’re enjoying nature that is such an important part of living, but there’s still segregation, how is that moving us to unity?

[@CorbinDIYVlogs]

I could not agree more. Maybe it’s just because of where I’m from but this seems so counterproductive in bringing everyone together. I don’t understand segregating to “fix” racism. It seems to me as it’s only exasperating the problem. Wouldn’t the solution be that we all love and value each other for our souls, who we are and what we bring to the world? This all seems like it’s just “payback” focused because it’s doing exactly what wasn’t liked just the other way around. I don’t understand how that fixes anything. We should be coming together in love. I’m happy they’re enjoying nature that is such an important part of living, but there’s still segregation, how is that moving us to unity?

[@ohske]

👍👍👍👌♥️

[@JenRiveraBell]

Yes!!!

[@JM-rh5ib]

i need help on saving lanspeary park greenhouse, it would be tore down after 100+ years. it is a city greenhouse, i think it has lots of potential to be turn into a community garden for many

[@lenam2114]

Why do we not have gardens like these in Germany? So cool and it is so much more than just a vegetable garden

[@thisisdumb660]

We actually have a lot of these in germany. The BUND (Bund für Umwelt und Naturschutz) has a lot. In my city the church has one. Maybe write an email to your city and don't be afraid to ask! My mom's city didn't have one and she wrote to her major and he worked with her to make one in an empty plot of land. (May only work in very small cities)

[@_LivingTwice]

Yayyyy!

[@jackievicente6601]

Awesome 😎

[@deerod5485]

This is awesome!! We're in South Colorado. Would love to create a food forest. Looking for like minds. Create a place like this... One Love!

[@fairisfair2986]

Do you have more information on Jane minor

[@soupafleye]

this is sooo lovely. makes me want to start a community garden for bipoc in idaho it’s much needed

[@eudoraevans3340]

Wonderful video

[@devivinod]

where is it located

[@adbc8213]

🌀❤️🌀

[@OliviaWood14]

To fellow white people complaining about "segregration", I believe you have misunderstood one of the purposes of this garden. Based onwhat Amanda said between 3 and 4min, she wants to give those BIPOC suffering from intergenerational trauma a space to heal from trauma and suppression and to reconnect with the land, a connection which was lost because of said (intergenerational) trauma. The garden therefore has an integral therapeutic component. Imagine something horrible had happened to a friend and they were going to a therapist because of this. You wouldn't complain about not being allowed to join their therapy sessions now would you? So even if it wasn't our ancestors, and hopefully to a lesser extent ourselves, who caused their trauma and disconnection, these complaints would be out of place. [edited]

[@OliviaWood14]

@@remyllebeau77 I'm sorry, my comment overemphasised what Amanda said around 3 to 4min into the video. I should have rewatched the video before posting this, then I would have realised I was giving something more weight than Amanda had given it, simply because her statement made me think. I have edited the post and I hope it now gives a more nuanced outview

[@askanca1472]

@Olivia Wood intergenerational trauma studies is a very controversial field, with few studies conducted on mental trauma and a lot of assumption theory that is not peer-reviewed. The only evidence that is clear in this field so far is on populations that have actually suffered disasters and could be studied per se, such as famine, Holocaust, torture. Even the wikipedia on the psychological trauma is based on 3 studies that have been quite controversial on their publishing. In other words, you may be lead to believe that it is real, but evidence thus far barely suggets it is...

[@askanca1472]

so you cannot equate individual trauma which is experienced first-hand to intergenerational trauma which is not actually proven to be a thing beyond the medical things I mentioned before... being tortured versus your grandpa being tortured - not the same thing at all

[@vaskoz3700]

the crop farming looks cool but also looks veary old and obsolete

[@Lizzy514]

She is the Jessica Krug of gardening.

[@jonescreekfarm9084]

I hate that this was made about color of skin. I love what your doing in every other way. We need to stop seeing skin color, but the heart underneath that skin.

[@Teghead]

Serious question: is the interest in herbalism partly due to a lack of healthcare access? I worry that herbalist healthcare advice is in some situations dangerous.

[@OlyaParis]

Prescription drugs and medical errors are the third leading cause of death after heart disease and cancer in the United States and Europe. Allopathic medicine is a money-making and killing industry. Leave herbalism alone, thank you!

[@johnowens5342]

Great garden, not a great idea to look at gardens through the lenses of race. The term "White dominated spaces" makes being white offensive or negative which it is not any more than Africa being a Black dominated space is offensive or negative, which it is not or china being a brown dominated space is offensive or negative, which it is not. Yes I know you will find me offensive but I don't mind speaking the truth that no race is negative or offensive no matter what space they occupy or how much of it they occupy. I don't care what race I grow tomatoes for. I have a 3 acre permaculture site and grow fruit, vegetables and nuts for all races. Good growing and less exclusion on your BIPOC community.

[@CorbinDIYVlogs]

💯 agree

[@Outlanderkade]

correct first

[@lovecatspiracy]

Comments are being deleted?

[@kimber-leighdomiano901]

Really?

[@lovecatspiracy]

@@kimber-leighdomiano901 There was a negative comment that is gone now. Don't know if author or channel deleted it. I am an avid reader of yt comments so I noticed.

[@4GODiswithus]

If someone reports a comment, yt will remove it!

[@kherbabferyel8144]

g

[@winterfae5403]

Everything about this is great except it makes me sad only certain people can go because of colour or race😔

[@treystills]

I love the ambition to improve surroundings and people. However the undertones of fight racism with racism has got to go. If you are blind to this logic please reconsider your position.

[@davellhernandez2518]

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