One endangered garden was El Jardin de la Esperanza (Garden of Hope) in the Lower East Side of Manhattan. Alicia Torres, a woman from Puerto Rico, started the garden with the help of family and community members. They worked for months clearing out the rubble of a vacant lot to make room for sunflowers and roses.
Creative actions including Earth Celebrations’ “Rites of Spring: Procession to Save Our Gardens” continued along with rippling actions by various activist groups such as the encampment at El Jardin de la Esperanza as an act of resistance to the slated bulldozing of the garden in the East Village.o99k.