Farming - East Saint Louis, Illinois, United States
The Indigo Garden Project is a compound that is a creative and growing green safe space catered to underrepresented communities affected by Environmental Racism for the purpose of education, art, and environmental justice teaching about the specialty crops that are grown for the purpose of sustainable art-making, food growing, and harvesting, as well as learning the importance and health benefits of having plants in our communities.The Indigo Garden Project is inspired by the African tradition and history of Indigo as well as the history of the African Diaspora history of Indigo here in the United States specifically during the Atlanta Slave Trade. Researching how indigo was used and cultivated as well as what other botanicals and foods were grown during those times.
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