South LA Seed Circle

This project is managed by Dominique of Black Roots Herbals with support from Going to Seed. 

The South LA Seed Circle is designed to bring our people together around food and seed sovereignty, while also promoting long-term environmental sustainability in our food system. We are merging our traditions of gathering around food, plants and medicine with a new purpose of renewing interest in gardening and growing, especially of our own traditional, high nutrient foods.  With a collaborative model of monthly meetings where we will share food, seeds, and stories of learning and encouragement, we will cultivate genetically diverse crops adapted to our unique climate and community preferences. We will renew our collective love of the land, and bring it into our beloved city, with such a rich history of agriculture and Blackness. We will remember our roots as people of the land, and reinvigorate our original agreements with the plants of our people. 

As Black and Native folks, we have always known the importance of our food and our environment. The world is catching up, as we deal with the struggles of climate change and increasing corporate control, and the need for resilient, community-driven solutions is becoming more obvious. This community-building project is at the forefront of innovative approaches to saving ourselves.

About the project leader Dominique

Black Roots Herbals

“everything everywhere all at once.”

we are all made of so much.  i am a daughter, granddaughter, sibling, friend, blessing in disguise. an herbal activist, a rootworker, a grower.

a healer, a medicine person. a poet.

alive.

West coast raised with deep Mississippi River roots.
Queer Black Native Two - Spirit woman.

a lover. a fighter. my ancestors’ wildest dreams running free.