On the same wave line the Gratitude Botanical Farm stands out, a green oasis in a predominantly African American area plagued by crime and poverty, where the young people of the neighborhood find redemption in the rebirth and fight the unrestrained phenomenon of the food desert. On the other hand, the 5 Points MARTA Garden is an example of agriculture where you least would expect it. The farm stands on the roof of the large underground station from which it takes its name. The principle of recycling as essential to the realization of the urban garden is satisfied here by the reuse of horse troughs as containers for individual small plots of land, granted upon request to the citizens of the neighborhood and beyond. But the most ambitious project is perhaps that of the Brown Mill urban forest, the first community belonging to the Urban Food Forest and model of a new concept of city park. Risen from the ashes of a farm whose owners used to leave excess production at the disposal of their neighbors, the Brown Mill forest recovery project builds on this act of generosity towards the community and is based on an ambitious project, which includes the restoration of the foothills alluvial forest with a focus on habitat recovery, wildlife and food production. From the safeguard of the protected trees, such as those producing pecan nuts, to the creation of flower gardens that support bee colonies, everything aims at creating balance: between the wild and the anthropized, the needs of the individual and that of the community, the mistakes of the past and the fines of the present. Community and resilience laboratories, because the history of the capital of the Georgia State is an uninterrupted alternation of opposites: despair and faith, death and rebirth, slavery and liberation, resignation and struggle, segregation and solidarity, desertification and abundance, crisis and prosperity. Above all, the seal of the phoenix and the motto of the city: Resurgens. 157
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