Welcome to the “Grow While You’re Here” Community by the Ira X Project and Friends. Please introduce yourself and tell us how you got here, what you need, and what you are looking forward to. We follow Black and and Brown and Indigenous and trans and worker and activist: Ancestors like Marsha P. Johnson, Thich Nhat Hahn, Malcolm X, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Assata Shakur, Audre Lorde, Ms. Major, George Edward Armstrong, Susan and Donald Mansion, and others; Elders like Mama Ayanna Davis, Melanie DeMore, Moni Law, Paul Kealua Blake, Danny Glover, and others; Leaders like Cat Brooks, Tur-ha Auk, Asantewaa RN, Krea Gomez, Ms. Janetta Johnson, Honey Mahogany, Juba Kalamka, Ira X, Cara Cavazos, Maya Selkie Scott, Celestina Meow, Keneda Gibson, Johanna Holden, and others; And Movements and Organizations like the Black Panther Party, the Zapatistas, Combahee River Collective, BLM, ACTUP, Disability Justice, APTP, CRC, and others. Please feel free to also share a pic of an animal or flower that you love, and let us know in the poll what you love about the garden. We are just getting started, and as we grow we will learn skills together, share our wins and losses, griefs and celebrations, and our garden/food/pet/etc. pics. We will also share videos, books, and zines and creators who we love and who help us grow. Thanks so much for being here. We are already whole. We are already enough. We are bringing ourselves and each other all the flowers we need to survive and thrive in the lifetime we have now. With revolutionary love, Ira X