our transformative collaboration

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Our introduction to the young people of the Sasha Bruce Barracks Row Drop-in Center initiated a relationship that has dramatically expanded our mission to include changing lives. In 2022, we began a collaboration with Sasha Bruce Youthwork to transform and activate the underused asset of the outdoor space of Sasha Bruce House at 1022 Maryland Avenue NE. 

Sasha Bruce interns and various volunteer groups under the direction of Guerrilla Gardeners of Washington DC have been clearing overgrowth and invasives, weeding and planting flower beds, pruning and planting trees and shrubs, completing a garden accent wall, rehabilitating a storage shed and revitalizing and expanding raised vegetable beds to prepare the site for the activation phase in 2023.

Our program, scheduled to begin in early Spring 2023, will provide instruction to Sasha Bruce youth that includes gardening and horticulture basics, landscape design and maintenance techniques and practices as well as urban agriculture. The goals we hope to achieve are help this underserved and at-risk population recognize and identify new opportunities and options, develop vocational and entrepreneurial skills, learn about food and nutrition and reduce food insecurity for them and their families.