Nick Routledge@nick_routledge
Reply to @shaillybarnes

@shaillybarnes Wonderful! Your images somehow remind me of the feel of this photo essay, describing "gardening the hood with children", an urban-gardening project initiated and led by moms, dads and helpers from Eugene's poorest neighborhood, 'The Whiteaker', ca. 2000. bugs.scribble.com/kidsgardening.html

Image of kid-drawn flowers, and adults and kids waving, with text, "Rebirthing Eden one block at a time."
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Image of kid-drawn flowers, and adults and kids waving, with text, "Rebirthing Eden one block at a time."

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Quoted by2/ Centered among low-income folk (apartment dwellers, mostly) in our city's poorest neighborhood, we took a fiercely creative approach to the serious work of growing food and basic medicines, wedding leading-edge, ecological-design practices to dynamic community involvement.