The garden

The garden /

The fourteen-acre community garden at 41st and Alameda in South Central Los Angeles is the largest of its kind in the United States. Started as a form of healing after the devastating L.A. riots in 1992, the South Central Farmers have since created a miracle in one of the country's most blighte...

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Other Authors: Kennedy, Scott Hamilton (Director, Producer), Derrenger, Dominique (Producer), Nacif, Vivianne (Producer), Sender, Julie Bergman (Producer), Sender, Stuart (Producer), DeAngelis, Doug (composer (expression)), Tenorio, Gabriel (composer (expression)), Rogers, Donald, 1923- (Photographer), Normark, Don, 1928-2014 (Photographer)
Format: Video DVD
Language:English
Spanish
Published: [New York] : Oscilloscope Pictures, 2009.
Edition:Widescreen.
Subjects:
Community gardens > California > Los Angeles.
Urban agriculture > California > Los Angeles.
Community life > California > Los Angeles.
Community development, Urban > California > Los Angeles.
Land use, Urban > California > Los Angeles.
Eminent domain > California > Los Angeles.
Community development, Urban.
Community gardens.
Community life.
Eminent domain.
Land use, Urban.
Political science.
Social history.
Urban agriculture.
Politics and government.
Social conditions.
Los Angeles (Calif.) > Politics and government.
Los Angeles (Calif.) > Social conditions.
California > Los Angeles.
Environmental films.
Documentary films.
Feature films.
Nonfiction films.
Feature films > United States.
Table of Contents:
  • Intro to the garden, 2003
  • Origin of the garden
  • Notice to vacate
  • Public comment
  • Councilman visits
  • Farmers do their research
  • Soccergate
  • They gotta go
  • Two weeks to eviction
  • The farmers find Dan Stormer
  • Injunction hearing
  • Stage two : community outreach
  • Implementing rules at the garden
  • Trial prep : Horowitz deposition
  • Horowitz appeals
  • Infighting at the garden
  • Infighting at the garden
  • Fundraising
  • Celebrities lend a hand
  • They raise the money!
  • The deal goes sour
  • Eviction and demolition
  • New beginnings.

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