Feeding the Resistance: Lessons from Sitio San Roque’s Taninmang Bayan (Community Garden) on Collective Resilience and Food Sovereignty

Day 2 11am 2 hours English

This workshop explores how communities can utilize community gardens as a method for food sovereignty, collective resistance, and community building. Taking lessons from Sitio San Roque, an urban poor community in the Philippines, this workshop provides participants a framework for adapting community garden practices, particularly resource identification and project planning, to their particular communities.

Contextualizing community gardens as a radical practice of land and resource reclamation, this workshop answers questions on how “resource-scarce” communities have pre-existing tools at their disposal and moves away from dependence-based schemes towards modes of movement building. This is particularly poignant as Sitio San Roque’s Tanimang Bayan (community garden) arose out of resource neglect from local government units during the COVID-19 pandemic, revealing the creative potential existent in communities worldwide.