Our Garden
The Abolition Garden is a BIPOC-led community farm based around co-creating healing and accessible spaces for people of color, especially young people and people with disabilities, that is rooted in collective intimacy and interdependence with the land and all our relatives.
ROOTED IN COMMUNITY:
We are based in the Globeville neighborhood of Denver. Globeville is often noted for being the most polluted zip code in Colorado. But we would rather speak to Globeville at it's core: a diverse and resilient community of migrants, people who moved into this place and worked together to build a deeply rooted and interdependent network that has flourished for many generations despite the neighborhood's complex history of extraction at the hands of profit and industrialization. This community embodies the resilience and the stories of its people and refuses to be erased. The land we work with has been stewarded by the community in different forms since the 90s, and we are honored to be her current caretakers. When we co-created the farm, we wanted to ensure that our work would be affirming and reflective of our interwoven stories as people of color. We ground ourselves in the stories of this land and the importance of stewarding a safe space where we can gather and grow together.
Indigenous land stewardship:
Our farm is a reflection of our own layered histories and a means of cultural reclamation. As such, we are are combining the Indigenous knowledge passed through generations of our own families with innovative approaches that weave a layered, interdependent food system. Through a nuanced understanding of ethnoecology, soil building, microclimates, and water harvesting, we are working to honor and protect all life as sacred.
Growing for resilience:
Our farm is a space for creativity where we want to be porous and adaptable to meet the changing needs of our world. As such, we challenge ourselves to do the work that is innovative and supportive of each participant in our ecosystem. With professional backgrounds in farming, landscape architecture, and wildland fire ecology, we grow food in a way that heals the soil, increases water infiltration, and supports beneficial native ecosystems in the shortgrass prairie region of Colorado. Through our land practices, we can ensure that we are feeding people in a way that creates minimal ecological disturbance while increasing biodiversity by preserving our cultural heritage crops.
