The Garden

The fourteen-acre community garden at 41st and Alameda in South Central Los Angeles is the largest of its kind in the United States. Started as a form of healing after the devastating L.A. riots in 1992, the South Central Farmers have since created a miracle in one of the country’s most blighted neighborhoods.

But now, bulldozers are poised to level their 14-acre oasis.

And the powers-that-be have the same response: “The garden is wonderful, but there is nothing more we can do.”

If everyone told you nothing more could be done, would you give up?

Director Bio
Academy Award nominee Scott Hamilton Kennedy is a writer, director, producer, cameraman, and editor who has worked on everything from documentary and scripted film, music videos and commercials to motion capture animation, scripted and reality television. His theatrically released documentary work includes The Garden, OT: our town, and Fame High.

Scott is currently in production on the feature length documentary Food Evolution, about the global struggle to feed two billion more people by 2050 and to do it without destroying the planet.