Mural on Ideal Market: “Sharing the growth.”
“Sharing the growth" is a celebration of the connection between humans and the earth.
The relationship between people who grow plant and those whole are nourished by them.
Behind every plant we harvest & eat is a person/ farm and it is a relationship we that should be celebrated and honored.
Plants from left to right:
Mullein (tall green leafy plant): used for respiratory health
Mullein is used for cough, whooping cough, tuberculosis, bronchitis, hoarseness, pneumonia, earaches, colds, chills, flu, swine flu, fever, allergies, tonsillitis, and sore throat.
Arnica (yellow flower): topical healing
Arnica is used topically for a wide range of conditions, including bruises, sprains, muscle aches, wound healing, superficial phlebitis, joint pain, inflammation from insect bites, and swelling from broken bones.
Echinacea (pink flower): immune health
substances that boost immune function, relieve pain, reduce inflammation, and have hormonal, antiviral, and antioxidant effects.
Chamomile (white flower): emotional healing
sleep supportive, calming and relaxing
Veggies: Asparagus & Beets
THE PEOPLE:
KARIA WHITE
@ofkaria
Karia White is an organizer, artist and activist, from New Jersey, and is based out of the Boulder and Denver, Colorado area. She is the founder of Siblings in the Struggle Collective (SISC), a radical collective that reimagines our institutions and paradigms through offering aid and community support. She is also a co-contributor to the Lyripeutics Storytelling Project housed at the University of Colorado.
Karia is currently an undergraduate student at the University of Colorado-- Boulder double majoring in International Affairs and Ethnic studies as well as pursuing two minors in Ethnic Studies and French. She is a poet/writer and is in constant dialogue with how we bridge the worlds deemed as separate, together to create a more cohesive community.
Karia’s work is influenced by her own positionality and understanding of these systems from experiences adjacent and centered in her own life that is constantly changing forms. She is most passionate about issues surrounding mass incarceration and the mental integrity of Black and Brown people.
She operates off the mantra “I see you”, in an effort to make bodies and voices that have been historically marginalized and silenced visible. Her motto is “In a world that conditions you to be an individual, the most radical thing that a person can do is be in community”.
BRE LAMBITZ
@brebitz
Bre Lembitz is an artivist and a healer who pulls from a multitude of worlds, everything from economics, to chinese medicine, psychology, permaculture and racial justice.
She believes that healing happens through open-minded observation of our own systems, be that body, mind or society; when we have the tenacity to lean into the tensions and relax, we go deep enough to discover how to release the pain.
SAMUEL JONES
@samueljessejones
@lostgreensfarm
Samuel Jones is a proud transgender man who lives in Denver, CO where he pursues a variety of interests. From 2019 to early 2020, Samuel unexpectedly fostered a neighbor's child (who recently transitioned to living with a wonderful adoptive family). This unexpected arrival annihilated Samuel's existing sense of self, which was further altered by the covid-19 pandemic, and national responses to existing systemic racism and transphobia.
Seeking comfort, Samuel turned to the soil. He converted his neighbor's lawn into a microfarm to heal, build community and work sustainably. This project is called Lost Greens Farm, and is an expanding regenerative microfarm currently located in the food desert neighborhood of Globeville, Denver.
