We all know the first Pride started with a brick — so we’re carrying on the tradition of queers-being-queers-wielding-bricks-for-liberation; only this time we won’t be throwing bricks, we’ll be using them to build a new stone bench in our queer-owned and TGNC-led community teaching garden. The “QD Garden” was a dream born out of a horizontally-organized program called ‘Queering DIY’, where a group of a dozen or so enbies got together with the dream of co-creating a community teaching garden and Thirdspace.  This garden, and Operation: StoneBench, is headquartered at west side San Antonio’s premiere queer-owned space for “M.E. T.I.M.E.” (Mindful embodiment through inspired mutual exchange). Our dream is for this garden to be a queer safe haven for TGNC + allies, that makes food sovereignty and green space accessible to our community in San Antonio. In recognizing that everyone has their own role to play in as we work towards collective liberation, this Garden is our offering to the collective, as we practice:

1. Permaculture & Food Soverignty, as we learn to navigate today’s changing economic + ecologic climates
   
   
2. Horizontally-organized community programming, as we work together & see ourselves as a part of “it all”
   
   
3. Normalizing accessible green spaces for introverts & neurospicy community members who are recharged by more quiet, interactive, curiousity-based convenings centered around connectivity, rather than by loud marketplaces or club environments centered around consuming
   
   
4. Normalizing spacemaking that feels more inclusive for the TGNC & intersectional community 

Together, we are co-creating acessible green space where we can tap into the medicine of nature, while strengthening relationship with the land and food we eat, as we learn together to practice food sovereignty.

Most of the QD Garden’s supplies (shovels, rakes, wood for planter boxes, pots, mulch, seedlings, etc) have already been generously donated by community members. With them, along with much love, we’ve already built the garden beds, and now its time for the fun part: being IN the garden we’ve built! With global warming making central Texas’ summer heat more unbearable, we are finding we need a place to sit in the shade, and that it would be great to have a place to store all of these generously donated garden supplies. 

For just a few dollars, you can become a part of the literal foundation this community garden, which will last for years to come! <3

Checkout our fundraising goals & options for one-time or ongoing sponsorship at: https://givebutter.com/queerslovebricks