South Park, Seattle · A Neighborhood Experiment
Funded by neighbors.
Grown by community members.
Harvested together.
Four projects, rooted in South Park, stewarded by trained
and equipped neighbors — pulling community close at a time
when fear and fascism would separate us from each other.
We have more resources than we have the capacity to recognize.
We are all proximate to love, and a will to be together,
at no cost but connection.
While we are excited about these seeds, it takes time to sow. Please stay tuned for updates. In the meantime, take a look at what we are cooking by exploring our website.
"Like Orca Whales in the Salish Sea — serving community through servant leadership, holding multiple roles, and when a shift is needed… recognizing the strength in intergenerational leadership. Nurturing growth and ownership in young community members."
The organizing spirit behind Sowing in Place
Inspired by Restorative Peacemaking principles by Huayruro
and the organizing vision of the Combahee River Collective
Four Roots, One Soil
Project 01 · Education
Rooted in the 1964 SNCC Freedom Schools of Mississippi — where young Black Mississippians were taught not just literacy but their own history, their own power, and their right to act.
This project carries that torch forward: joyful, culturally rooted learning for young people in South Park. Curriculum inspired by the Children's Defense Fund and created by Anab Nur.
Project 02 · Memory
Every elder holds a library. This project is archiving the living memory of Black workers who built and flew and sailed in and around the Pacific Northwest — histories that institutional archives have long neglected.
Before those libraries close, we are listening. We are recording. We are preserving.
Project 03 · Nourishment
$3,000 invested into South Park restaurants every single week. 150 hot, prepared meals served to neighbors who need them.
This is not charity — it is a circulation of resources that stays local, supports small Black and brown-owned businesses, and feeds the community that holds us all.
Project 04 · Healing
Circles facilitated by Tyra Edwards — trained in restorative peacemaking principles — for neighbors, young people, and organizers who need a space to repair relationship and reimagine accountability.
Tyra is also expanding the documentation and preservation of restorative practice work emerging among Collective Justice organizers across the region.
The Orcas of the Salish Sea do not specialize in one task.
They hunt together, teach together, grieve together.
When leadership is needed, it shifts. When a young one
is ready to lead, the pod makes room.
The organizers sowing these projects intend to operate the same way —
holding multiple roles in life and community, serving through relationship
rather than hierarchy, and nurturing the next generation of leaders
until they are ready to take the front.
This is not a nonprofit. This is not a program.
This is a neighborhood experiment, funded by neighbors,
in direct service of the people who live here.
Further Reading
↓ The Hidden Architecture: What the Machine Cannot ClassifyWhat We Already Have
Imagine what you can do
right now,
consistently,
in your sphere of influence.
You don't need permission. You don't need a nonprofit status
or a grant cycle or a board of directors. You need a seed,
a patch of ground, and the discipline to water it.
This is the experiment. Join us.
Have an idea to sow?
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