Growing Avocados as a Form of Resistance🥑

This is a movement that encourages more people to start growing avocados (and other food!) at home. 

You can easily get started - just plant an avocado stone from any avocado fruit you can get your hands on. 

We will teach you how to "graft on" a cutting from an avocado variety we have access to - meaning you will be able to grow your own healthy, tasty avocados directly in your own garden or on communal land.

Grafting is easy! What is hard is finding and receiving avocado cuttings of a desired avocado variety, and making the graft at the right time of the year.

If you don't want to do all this - we are growing over 100 avocado trees - and grafting them for you - and plan on giving these away locally. 

We are building this as the initial community based avocado network. These trees will become "mother" avocado trees. They will become trees that we can take cuttings from, and share these with other growers, thus expanding the network exponentially.

Our project aims to create a strong, engaged network of growers and grafters. 

This is a movement that has several aims:
1 - It gets more people involved with growing food locally
2 - It builds connections locally
3 - It teaches people about fruit growing (in particular, taking cuttings, and grafting)
4 - It encourages people to share their produce, and to share cuttings with each other.
5 - It builds resilience against a global food industry which is at risk of breaking apart due to climate change, rising inequality, and late-stage-capitalism (an increase in wars started by imperialist forces).

The answer to most of our problems is to start organise ourselves locally.

Start repairing our soils. 

Start sowing more seeds. 

Build a local and resilient network - fight for your independence from a capitalist system that only looks to extract and exploit!

Its ironic that as avocado (Persea americana) prices rise, people in the communities that grow them (generally in the Global South) can no longer afford them. The food they grow at home is too valuable for them to consume themselves — it's too precious for that(!) — and instead, it's shipped thousands of miles to the West (Europe and the United States for example), where we pay a high price in the supermarkets - with the supermarket taking a huge chunk of the money, and so the growers are being short changed.

And due to climate change, driven by the behaviour of people living in the West or the 1%, the reliability of our food crops are decreasing. Unstable weather conditions are beginning to affect their production.

Access to water, when it comes to avocado production, is often the biggest concern. This comes at a time when data centers are springing up all over the place, consuming vast quantities of water and even causing local water access and pollution problems. We are prioritising data centres over access to water for local communities and food production.

We believe that growing avocados on a small scale, at a local level, can contribute to making this a more sustainable way of producing food for our local communities whilst also encouraging people to consider the issues with our global food system.