Ordinarily radical.

January 2026

In 2025, we launched a new youth-centered program called Gardeners Without Borders with the tagline: "Plant a seed, grow your hustle." Looking back, that phrase feels prophetic, not just for the young people in the program, but for the evolution of Black Girls With Green Thumbs itself.

When we began this journey in 2016, we weren’t trying to build a brand or start a movement, we simply wanted to connect. To share what we were learning about food, the soil, and ourselves with the people we loved. A few years of growing food in our yards taught us something powerful: there is radical strength in the ordinary.

It’s funny, isn’t it, how revolutionary it seems to grow your own food? To be self-sustaining? These are practices that require time, intention, patience, and observance, but they’re also deeply natural. Just like breastfeeding, another act that should feel instinctual yet is often framed as defiant or controversial. Our society has a strange way of making the natural seem radical.

We see this dissonance everywhere, like the collective unease that rises as the days grow shorter and colder. What should be a seasonal cue to slow down and restore is instead met with resistance. We've been taught to push through rather than tune in. The alarm bells we hear aren’t from within - they’re signals from a society out of sync with nature.

Ten years in and what we set out to do remains clear and ongoing: to cultivate spaces where food and community grow - intentionally, healthily, and naturally. Not just for ourselves, but for all of us. As we step into our tenth year, we plan to celebrate this rootedness, with you, with each other, and with deep gratitude - for the next 10 and beyond!