Isa Jamira is using urban community gardens to mitigate climate change
“We want to see more green spaces and growing spaces, and we want to create more opportunities for young farmers within the city to flourish.”
Produced by Jordan Walker, Alexandra Katsoulis, Ilse Atkinson
The Know, Video
Oct 25, 2022
Excerpt:
Sometimes, the best way to get in touch with nature is to get your hands dirty! That’s why activist, artist, and farmer, Isa Jamira (@theartistactivistfarmer), wants to get people excited about community gardening. Isa works at a community garden in New York City, teaching city dwellers about nutrition, composting, and growing their own food. She hopes that her work will not only get people more excited about farming, but will encourage them to fight back against climate change.
Isa first got excited about urban farming while working towards a degree in environmental studies. “The curriculum within my environmental studies department seemed to favor scholars that didn’t really have anything to do with me,” she tells In The Know. “It wasn’t until I started to focus on food that I started to see representation from people from my own community and people that cared about things that I care about as it relates to the environment.”
