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West End Garden

PROJECT

EFBL's West End Garden aims to create a sustainable garden that provides a safe space for Black Evanstonians and addresses health and food inequity by reintroducing gardening as a means of liberation.

Budget


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Balance transfer

Tarps

Category
Materials & Supplies
from Nia Williams to West End Garden
-$74.83 USD
Paid
Reimbursement #200478

Credit from Guest to West End Garden

+$25.00USD
Completed
Contribution #743161
$
Today’s balance

--.-- USD

Total raised

$617.34 USD

Total disbursed

$617.34 USD

Estimated annual budget

$35.00 USD

About


EFBL's West End Garden aims to create a sustainable garden that provides opportunities for Black Evanstonians through gardening and mentorship. We want to demystify the negative connotations around gardening for Black people, address health and food inequity in Evanston’s only food desert, and reintroduce gardening as a means of liberation.

This garden will serve as a brave space to heal and address the complicated and traumatic relationship between Black people and the environment. While there are many historical and theoretical approaches to unpacking how Black people have been harmed in outdoor spaces, we hope that the West End Garden can become a more tangible action to repair the lasting wounds caused by environmental racism. The garden will also work to combat the intentional elimination of green spaces in the 5th ward. We aim to address the impacts of the food desert in the 5th ward caused by redlining and the intentional and systemic divestment of Black communities in Evanston by providing fresh produce to the community. We hope to address our overarching mission of providing life-affirming institutions for Black Evanston residents through the West End Garden project. 

Please direct all questions and contacts to: [email protected] 

Our team

Evanston Figh...

Admin
we keep each other safe

Mollie Harten...

Core Contributor

Sarah Bogan

Core Contributor

Contributors


West End Garden is all of us

Our contributors 10

Thank you for supporting West End Garden.

Guest

$225 USD

Nia Williams

$170 USD

Guest

$50 USD

nick

$50 USD

MauraMB

$50 USD

Guest

$45 USD

Sarah Levenstam

$40 USD

Isaac

$25 USD

Jenna Brieva ...

$10 USD