Mission Statement
The vision of the Pachamama Community Garden is to create a welcoming, beautiful, and functional outdoor space for Los Angeles’s diverse community. We aim to sustainably produce high-quality, healthy produce that will be shared among the garden members and wider community. Pachamama Garden is also designed to be an outdoor art gallery space where function, design, and creativity meet as artists tell stories and weave powerful messages in multiple media, including the garden itself as a potential artistic medium. Finally, the Pachamama Garden is a space for learning, community building, artistic expression and reconnecting with foodways that thrives from the dedicated work of its participants.
Our goals:
Feed ourselves/the community quality produce
Create a safe and nourishing space that promotes a sense of community
Learn and increase awareness on a variety of issues, including organic food and healthy eating, climate change, environmental racism, food workers’ rights, food sovereignty, and the history of food and its cultural impact
Experiment with and implement sustainable and ecologically-appropriate gardening methods
Provide space for artists to display their work opportunities for the community to engage with it
Host community events centered around these goals, such as cooking classes, art showings, seminars and town halls, movie nights, garden workshops, and skill demonstrations
In a society that promotes consumerism while ignoring sustainability, gardening becomes a defiant act of rebellion.