It’s no surprise that community and gardening go hand in hand. Gardening side by side or with others has been creating camaraderie between people and building community since the early days of agriculture when people began to grow and harvest grains.
God Save the Green is a documentary in progress that tells the stories from around the world of groups of people regaining a sense of community and improving their lives through gardening.
Today for the first time in history, the majority of people in the world live in suburbs or cities and not in the country. In the edges and central part of cities, the need to grow on the land and innovative ways to do so continue to emerge. God Save the Queen tells the story of gardening around the world such as Morocco, Brazil, Berlin, Italy, Kenya.
One story explores the one garden that has survived in the biggest slum of Casablanca that uses cement and tin to grow potatoes, coriander, salad, pumpkin. In Brazil, a group of women in Teresina have been making a living growing vegetables using hydroponic growing made with recycled materials. In Nairobi, Kenya, a family grows vegetables inside large bags filled with soil from the forest surrounding the city. This method of gardening is gaining in popularity and more families are producing food in this way.
In this way Morris can get his crop also in rainy season. Food is used to feed his large family and also to be sold in the slum. This new idea is spreading all around the slum helping families, needy people and schools.
The project is currently in production, and you can see video clips and stills at the godsavethegreen website.
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