“The Garden Is Life and the Garden Is Death”: Radical Growers and the Struggle for Liberation

Urban Farm DB summary

Drawing on growing spaces in Camden, NJ, and Philadelphia, PA, this study applies a Critical Environmental Justice (CEJ) framework to examine how radical urban growing spaces contribute to the struggle for Black liberation amid state-sanctioned racial violence, environmental racism, and COVID-19-related health disparities and food apartheid. It identifies two findings: (1) growers create space that confronts and rectifies the violence of antiblack racism, and (2) redevelopment and white space act as a form of violence that undercuts the work of Black liberation.