Deanwood Community Garden
This is the community garden that features heavily in the later chapters of Ashante Reese’s Black Food Geographies. One of many urban sites of food sovereignty initiatives, the garden is currently led/managed by REDEEM DC. The garden itself is called Pride’s Joy Garden, and provided nearly 1000 lbs of produce to the community in 2021. The REDEEM site is split into two major focuses: the community garden project and community outreach programs. The outreach program is primarily focused on providing physical, emotional, and spiritual resources to community members through clothing, counseling, educational materials, and employment materials. On their initiatives page, they have a section on composting and share affordable housing newsletters. This ties in specifically with the wider struggle of urban gentrification and community fragmentation that ensues, and also shows the ways that food sovereignty action must be catered specifically to a community’s demonstrated and stated needs.