New Growth

I remember my first exposure to the once-perplexing notion that gardening could be cool. Some friends I met through a “Holistic Health” club I co-founded had decided to make a food forest in Compton, Los Angeles. The phrase “food desert” had just entered my lexicon. It was 2014. Micronutrient density in store-bought foods was (and still is) at an all-time low.