
Cultivating What Matters
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For community leader Janine Watkins, a garden represents the beauty of possibilities.
Community leader Janine Watkins and designer Demar Matthews survey the site of a proposed artist residency and garden. Watkins discusses the importance of ongoing growth and what it means to create opportunities in a neighborhood that has been historically plighted.
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Cultivating What Matters
Clip: Episode 2 | 2m 25sVideo has Closed Captions
Community leader Janine Watkins and designer Demar Matthews survey the site of a proposed artist residency and garden. Watkins discusses the importance of ongoing growth and what it means to create opportunities in a neighborhood that has been historically plighted.
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorshipJanine: Every day, there's some kind of struggle, some kind of engagement.
WLCC does its work.
You got other institutions in the community that do their work, and then you have a lot of warriors on the street that do their work just like in Harlem or Chicago.
You know, you got activists doing the work all over the country.
I got a farmer who wants to take that back triangle spot in the back there.
Man: Yeah.
What's he want to do?
Janine: And we're gonna plant every kind of pepper you can think of.
So I think I'm gonna put some beds in the back because he's going to be growing in the back.
And then we can walk...
Politicians, different governmental structures, you know.
But you still have the same plight by the same ethnicities perpetrated against the same people.
And in all of that, it's still a beautiful time, you know, because it's always beautiful if there's possibilities.
Depending on what we do with the fence, we've got to do the vertical grow, right?
So we'll vertical grow, and we've got to come up with that equation on how much more acreage we get, if any.
But if we're growing on the fence lines until we decide what we're going to do on this front line, then you've got growing grounds that are vertical that we can quantify.
Demar Matthews: Being able to have a program that changes and this fence will look different, you know, as the months go on, I see a lot.
I see it not being static.
[Laughter] Janine: Everything's gonna be growing, right?
Demar: Yeah.
Growing, existing.
Janine: Everything's gonna be growing.
So it's the beauty of life's existence, that there's that exchange, that just when you think that they're telling you it can only be this way... it's any way that God or fate or the universe decides for it to be once you decide how you're going to determine your life or how you're going to project yourself into the world.
Children in America are taught money's so important, it's more important than people.
But time is what's most important and the quality of your life.
The richest man in the world cannot give you a second back, not a millisecond back.
The most luxurious thing you can own is time and your health.
We Are Taught to Survive (Preview)
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A week from opening, the farm presses on in the face of challenges and deadlines. (30s)
Imparting Self-Love and Land Stewardship
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Watts leader Janine Watkins on the importance of self-love and being a steward of nature. (2m 46s)
Untangling The Roots of Environmental Racism
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In Watts, the roots of farming and environmental racism have been entangled since the 20s. (1m 45s)
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