SFC | How One Inspired Gardener Helped Strengthen a Community

Today the Sustainable Food Center featured an article on the work I've done at Gardens at Gus Garcia community garden. That's me in the middle with arms crossed after a garden workday.

Sari Albornoz, SFC's Grow Local program director, tells my community gardening story with beautifully rendered lines:

Joseph de Leon wasn’t always a gardener, but ever since he was a small child, he has understood the power gardening has to make a place feel special. “My earliest memories are of my grandmother’s awesome garden: she had roses, chickens, nopales, yerba buena. We were in the middle of the urbanized west side of San Antonio, but her yard was like an oasis.”

Fast forward a couple of decades, and Joseph is a passionate gardener in his own right. His initial try at gardening--a 2x2-foot herb garden--has gradually enveloped his whole yard, so that he now lives among vegetables, fruit trees, and chickens.

Read "How One Inspired Gardener Helped Strengthen a Community" on SFC