The Garden Project is a documentary-style public information project that promotes urban organic gardening while addressing a host of environmental, public health, economic, and lifestyle issues.

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In the project six urban families of color living typical city lives decide to take up organic gardening using only their available resources of time, space and money. As beginning gardeners neophytes their endeavors will be a learning experience, demonstrating how a small investment in time and money can make organic produce accessible and yield great returns. The participating families will learn the basics of organic gardening from local experts and will be coach throughout the growing season on how to nurture and maintain their crops.

Each family will grow a variety of crops determined by their available resources of space and time. At various points in the growing season each family will work closely with Kristi Wokoma and a certified nutritionist to learn about the health benefits of their crop and develop delicious, healthy and easy to prepare meals based on dishes they currently like and eat frequently. Towards the end of the growing season all of the families will gather together for a dinner party where all of the featured dishes will be based on ingredients derived from their gardens.

TGP will be presented as a series of short 15-20 minute documentary-style segments that can be viewed on DVD and on the web. Each segment will incorporate entertaining messages about organic foods, cooking, health and lifestyle, budgeting and economics, environmental awareness and social responsibility. The project is designed to be useful to Organizations and Agencies whose mission it is to address public health issues, topics of urban and environmental sustainability, educational institutions, and individuals interested in improving their quality of life.

We launched The Garden Project in the spring of 2010. As an unfunded project our goal was to gauge the community response to the concept and develop a demonstration model to present to potential financial backers. We are currently seeking funding for this project.

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For more information about how you can participate in or support The Garden Project, contact:
Inye Wokoma(click name for email)

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Pursuit of a Green Planet

In the spring of 2008 Hip Hop and community activist Keith Tucker approached Inye Wokoma about what he believed would be a groundbreaking documentary Hip Hop film. Pursuit of a Green Planet, Tucker’s conceptual brainchild, was the culmination of his nearly two decades of community and media activism and event production. Before that first meeting was over Keith Tucker and Inye Wokoma became partners in this venture.

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Pursuit of a Green Planet is a documentary film project that looks at the intersection of Hip Hop and the Green Movement through an exploration of food and health issues in poor and urban communities. The film focuses on Keith Tucker, a regular guy who will become a living experiment as he makes the radical transition from your average American diet and lifestyle to a truly green, organic vegan lifestyle. He will be our guide on a journey of discovery as we learn how our food today actually makes us sick, the role corporation’s play in determining what we consume, the history of chemicals in our food chain, how our everyday eating habits can become deadly and what we can do to combat these realities. This will be an amazing opportunity for health professionals to study, evaluate and gain knowledge of the human body, particularly when it pertains to eating the various foods in our common American diet.

Picking up where “Super Size Me” left off the film will answer the questions: What happens if you go all the way Green? What does it mean to go Green? If I shouldn’t eat most of the food I am used to what should I eat? Will it taste good? Will I feel like I am missing out on something by eating green? What happens if you ate nothing but organic food? What benefits are there to eating and living organically? Picking up where shows like “The Biggest Loser” and “Workout” leave off, the film will illustrate how, through green living, you can not only lose weight, but fine tune your body to be the highly efficient machine it was designed to be.

One of the main goals is to get youth involved and interested in food and health issues through Hip Hop activism. Hip Hop is a cultural force that youth around the world understand and identify with. In our film we are using Hip Hop and it’s top vegetarian and vegan icons to deliver our message.

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Pursuit of a Green Planet is currently in the fundraising stage of pre-production. For more information contact:
Keith Tucker (click name for email) |  ph: 206.234.9565
Inye Wokoma (click name for email) |  ph: 206.325.1159

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