Spring Uprising!
Spring is just around the corner, and our gardens need soil! Our volunteers have been working for months to transform our very own Test Site into a productive community garden space, and as we prepare for planting season, Healing Gardens CHA is soliciting donations toward soil, mulch, vessels, seeds, and other supplies. As we build out this site, we'll not only be preparing to help feed the people, our team will be proving out methods that we can take to additional sites around Chattanooga!
Healing Gardens CHA sprouted last summer as an organic offshoot of the nationwide movement to recognize the power of the people to resist injustice and strengthen our Black communities. Since then, our all-volunteer, all-season #GardenArmy has deployed to community gardens and outdoor spaces around the Chattanooga area to provide on-the-ground support for local urban farmers and the crops they grow.
We believe that change starts in the ground itself. Did you know that the physical act of gardening exposes you to microbiota that helps lower rates of depression? Soil health determines the health of all our relations. How we treat the soil, especially the soil we grow our food in, directly affects the health of not only our bodies, but our minds and spirits. Healthy soil grows resilient and abundant nutrient-dense food and gives us a real, physical connection with the natural world around us and with our ancestors whose bodies have rejoined the very earth we till.
Improving the health of our soil also plays a vital role in our struggle against oppression. By supporting small-scale community gardening, we can reduce our dependence on large-scale corporate agriculture and put the means of production back in the hands of the people. With every okra, sweet potato, radish, cabbage, and kale, we're helping our friends and neighbors rediscover the health and happiness that come through cultivating our little part of mankind's oldest relationship: the plants we eat!
Power to the People!
DONATION INCENTIVES:
Some of our favorite local artists and businesses have graciously offered to fertilize our fundraiser with fun perks! Specify a perk in the comments section (or if you'd prefer to remain anonymous, message us!) and enjoy some of this season's early bounty!
If you would like to receive a gift for donating please specify what gift in the comments section or if you are an anonymous donor please send us a message with your gift specifications. Be on the look out for rotating incentives!
$6.66 donation: You get a few lettuce/vegetable starts summoned forth by our team!
$10 donation: Jam your choice of one of Lon Eldridge's 6 CDs. Limited to 20 recipients.
www.loneldridge.bandcamp.com
$20 donation: get some plants in your belly with a $10 gift card to Sluggo's Vegan Cafe! Limited to 5 recipients.
IG: sluggosnorth
$20 donation: Exile Off Main Street is offering $10 gift cards. Limited to 5 recipients.
IG: exileoffmainst
$30 donation: receive a $20 gift card from Chattanooga Brewing Co! Limited to 5 recipients.
$40 donation: One indoor macrame plant hanger by Rashelle Renae Macrame. Limited to 4 recipients.
IG: @rashellerenaemacrame
$50 donation: One handmade planter by Petalouda Pottery, maker of sacred ceramic art that celebrates the Earth and its beautiful plants. Limited to 3 recipients.
IG: @petaloudapottery
$50 donation: You'll receive your very own Healing Gardens GARDEN ARMY T-Shirt! Available in unisex sizes S-XXL (please specify yours!) and limited to 20 recipients.
$1069 donation: a date with Chattanooga's own Manny Strickland, founding member of Healing Gardens Cha and the sexy man behind The Midnight Puff.
(All gifts will be available pick-up only at our Saturday work parties between 10am-1pm. If you're long-distance and would like a gift shipped, shipping and handling is not included in donation. We can communicate about that when the time comes.)
If you would prefer to donate to our Cash App directly: Here's your chance! $HealingGardensCha