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Episode Date: September 14, 2021

We searched through the community and are sharing the spotlight with the master gardeners from Gratitude Botanical Farms!Gratitude Botanical Farm’s mission is to educate, grow, feed, serve and protect the history of the people of Atlanta through the art of organic urban agriculture.They are comprised of Christopher Lemons and Desmond Baskerville, both Atlanta natives. Not only are they business partners, but also childhood friends. Christopher, a certified master gardener from a long lineage of farmers in Georgia, maintained and managed his community garden for years in the historic Peoplestown community in Atlanta. Desmond, also an ancestral farmer, often volunteered there as his love for agriculture grew into a passion. In 2018 they were presented with the opportunity to work their dreams into a reality. Learn more about what they got goin on and hit their website for more info!https://www.gratitudeatl.com/homeHit Our Website for more info: https://www.85southshow.com/Get our custom merchandise: https://85apparelco.com/Subscribe To our Channel: bitly.com/85tubeWATCH KARLOUS' MILLER's COMEDY SPECIAL! https://vimeo.com/ondemand/karlousmil...FOLLOW THE CREWKARLOUS MILLER - https://www.facebook.com/karlousm/DCYOUNGFLY - https://www.facebook.com/DcYoungFly1/CHICO BEAN - https://www.facebook.com/OldSchoolFool/Director - JOE T. NEWMAN - www.ayoungplayer.comProducer CHAD OUBRE - https://www.instagram.com/chadoubre/Producer - LANCE CRAYTON - https://www.instagram.com/cat_corleone_/It's Jon - https://www.instagram.com/holaj_o_n/ Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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What's your favorite vegetable? The nick said a watermelon. That's a fruit. Hey, bro. Make a t-shirt with a watermelon, and say, watermelon, that's a fruit. That'd be dope. It's hard. What's your favorite vegetable?

It's a girl to eat. Both. Let's see, to grow. I like the challenge of the carrots. I'm still working on that. You still trying to perfect them? Yeah. It's slow and steady.

Yeah, the carrots. Yeah, because, you know, it'd be looking crazy and everything growing up, and you pull it out, it'd be dudd. If they grow underground, you just never know. That's what's up, man. So I like the surprise of that. To eat, probably most frequently tell. That's what's up, man.

Pollux. That's what's up, man. I got my info on y'all too, man. You know, I got my notes over here. We're really getting into this shit, man. Speaking of getting into this shit, welcome back to the 85 South show. Black Excellent Spotlight.

You know what this is about. This is where we go search through the community and we find black people doing excellent things. That's how we got these two strapping young gentlemen in here with me today, bro. Make sure I give y'all a proper, dope-ass intro. Check this out, bro. I got my man, Desmond, Bakersville, in here.

Basketville. Oh, wait a minute Baskerville Baskerville? This shit ain't say Okay, Vaskerville Baskerville Spotted

Baskerville. I mean, I got my my motherfuckery man, Desmond Baskerville, there is. I still said this shit wrong. But I got it close. Baskerville. Desmond Baskerville. I'm a high, bro.

It's Disman. There you go. It's Desmond. Just say Desmond. Chris tougher lemons and make sure

I broke that shit down I was up right in song and they put that name that's for a reason

no how y'all living man welcome to the trap man we appreciate you having us

dog for real for real man thank you thank you thank you yeah man we're living good

man growing good you know trying to grow community get this thing popin

that's dumb how you flip that grow community that's right bro tell me about it

man you don't get It's like, this shit is so dope because you don't meet a whole lot of people that's doing what y'all doing right now, bro. Yeah, so we're the dynamic duo of Gratitude Botanical Farm right over on the west side of the city of Atlanta. We've been running our farm for right at three years. Now, we're about to hit our third year anniversary in on Angie Lock. What a minute, man, man.

To me, the doperest thing is y'all right there by the flame. Yeah, right there on the good old west side of Atlanta. Both of us on the land. That's so dope, bro, which D.C. was here. would lose his mind if he knew what y'all were doing over there on the west side you could pick up some some good veg and then you know go do what you got to do day shifted you know like there you go bro you show up at the flame with a bag of vegetables that'd be so hard i want to do it but what was the inspiration what's the motivation how did y'all link together on this shit so

me and dad's we don't know on each other since we were four years old bro who went to pre-k together Bro, that's so rare that you even see a black friendship last that long. Yes, sir. Yeah, man, I mean, just growing up on the south side of the city of Atlanta, you know, like, there's a black autonomy down there. You know what I mean? Like, it's days where, like, we don't see white people, you know what I mean? Like, the dentist that we just had, you know, the doctor, all that, you know, those are the people that we would see. So just knowing that things, you could achieve things and, you know, there were expectations for you to, you know, make it happen.

Yeah. But, you know, just the farm got started. I'm a master gardening. I've been doing that for about four years. Wait a minute. What does that mean? Break that title down. So this is something that anybody that's interested in growing their own food

or want to know more about agriculture and horticulture. Every state in the United States of America has an extension office. And each part of that extension office from their land grant institutions, they do what's called a master gardener's program. So they teach people about how to grow their own. food, about different landscape plants, about water management, about organics, about chemical usages, and things like that. So probably about four years ago when I was still working at Home Depot, I burned through

some vacation time to get the certification. And, you know, I really learned that. I'm one of the few young African-American men that's a part of their program in the state of Georgia. So that's kind of what got my start. From there, I was running our community garden over in Peoples Town right around the corner from here and my boy reached out to me yeah so that whole time I was more of a hobbyist both of us are ancestral farmers so it's not like a first time thing for our family his family

they've been growing in McDonough for generations my family been growing up in Virginia for generations and then so like we came down here both of us work for corporate and stuff like that and I just always had my eyes on the out you know if that makes sense are y'all niggas time travels Bro, you said ancestral farmers. I'm like, nigger. You don't fuck me off with that one, bro. But that's hard. Yeah, like for me, bro, like, farming goes back in my family at least five or six generations.

Like, we look up our family's records. So, like, we don't have found, you know, family going back to, like, when we got bought from North Carolina to here, like, in 1846. So, you know what I mean? Just knowing your history and, like, this, that piece of heritage and stuff like that. I mean, where my family grows, food that down in McDonough, that's land that my great-great-grandfather

bought over 100 years ago that, you know, the family still is on. That's dope as fuck, man. What y'all got in this bag right here? Man, go ahead, bro. What's it out for them? What? We got it here. We got some good fresh producing and goodies.

We got some work for you. Do me a favor. Stunt the fresh produce. Let's start off with this good lettuce. Come on, man. Harvest it. Today, like I said, what? We, like, three miles from here. This is lettuce grown by black people.

Look at that. Black people lettuce. Hey, we got a blackhead and Martin Luther King. Barber Road. Letters from the west side. Really in the city, really in the city, really boom. And now, this will I want to show you right here. So this is some of our fresh dry herbs that we do.

So that's lemon grass right there that you can use in a loose leaf tea. Or if you, like, want to take a. bag. Give me the top. You know what I mean? All that. Fucking top. Now, I can drink this and take a bath in it. Yeah, bro. It's good. It's good. It's good. Now, there right here, this is the one

that's going to set it off for you. We got this from my brother named Bill. If you're on Instagram is down south organic gardener. We got this honey right out of Zon 3. Mm-hmm. Brother, that's the most gangster honey. Yes, bro. The motherfuck got a feeling that already

Bro. This is black people Honey. Yeah, bro. Like you were saying. Big up the bill. You know? We will stunt on these, well, fresh lemon grass. What my sharpie at? You got to sign it. Can I get the sharper? This too hard, bro. What else in here, man? We got some kale in here for you.

We got a red Russian kale right here, see. Red Russian. Nice to look good color to it. And see, and see. dad's about to get cussed out by his wife right here. These are the candles that him and his wife make. So, like, these are what's called value added products.

Let me see that. You know, we've got some candles that, you know, we're going off here too. Go ahead. Check that out. Okay. Check that out. Let us, go ahead and spark it up. Okay, I see what you're doing. Spark it up. I like that. But these are what's called value added products. So, you know,

most farmers just making money out for selling vegetables, you're not really going going to eat like that. So you have to be able to develop and make your own products, you know what I mean, to help sustain what you do. You know, besides just tea and candles, we also produce a hibiscus jam, and we also make hot sauce and jalapenoes. Big up the shelf juice jam. But that's the thing, though. All that stuff is seasonal, so you got to catch it while it's hot, you know what I'm saying?

It ain't hibiscus season. Not yet. It's on the way. Yeah. About two months. All right, bet. They's proud. You're going to pull up with some biscuits.

You know what I'm saying? Some vegan biscuits. Man, that's so fucking cold, man. Yeah, bro. What else in that bitch? He's ain't got a grocery bag. Pull a good groceries. That's grown on the west side.

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So that little piece when you're eating at some time and, you know, your body feel good, that's some of the end. endorphins that's released from when you use herbs. Talk your shit, bro. And then also, bro, what we brought you is an herb called mugwort. It's a common weed that people might call ragweed in the yard. But this is something that's good for, like, lucid dreams. They also use decoctions and make medicines from this for people that have mental illnesses and things like that. So when we talk about, like, farming and what we do, bro, we really are trying to, like, educate our community about, you know, plants and floor and farming.

things like that. Like, say for instance, bro, you might got on some cologne. Somebody got paid to travel, you know what I mean, to a foreign country to go to the jungle, to find that little flower that smell just that good to put in the cologne when they make the distillations. And so those are the kinds of things we want to expose our kids and our communities too. That's what I'm saying. Talk your shit, bro. Talk all up. So, yeah, that's pretty much what we got right now. And, like, right there at the farm, we do educational things. We have,

monthly volunteer days so anybody is open you can pull up we have our produce available right there we also partner with another black-owned business called the better buggy they do a delivery so straight from the farm to your door you know i mean you can get that from y'all on social media yes sir it's right here on the shirt it's gratitude botanical farm we also have a web store it's www. GratitudeATL.com. So any of the products that you want to interact with or you just want to sign up to keep updates

and alerts going going, you know, that's what we do. Yeah, I definitely. We're very community oriented. No cap. I'm trying to keep up with high biscuit season. Hey, we're here for you. Oh, my.

Like, trust me, man. We're going to hook you up with the Zobo T mix. So, you know, like in Jamaica, in Jamaica, they call it sorrel. But in Africa, they call it. Zobo. So, like, they busted down with the lemongrass and the ginger, you know, and it's real good to drink.

So we'll hook you up with your own. Zone 3, honey, bro. From Zone 3 Bs. You know what I'm saying? The queen is zone 3. She was in the hive. Bro. Hey, man, that's a whole shit. That's a thing, bro. Because, you know, it's people in our

communities and our neighborhoods that might got cases and felonies and stuff like that. So you can't get a traditional job. But guess what? You still ahead make your own honey. You know how much, like, locally grown honey goes for? They don't. That's why they need you to tell them.

You know, like, when we talk about, like, you know, hey, bro, you want to transition out of selling weed? Like, you can start selling mushrooms, like, legal mushrooms that people eat. You know what I mean? And you get more per gram than you would for selling wheat, and you ain't going to get cased up. Come on, man. So it's just like little things like that that we're trying to do to show people,

you know, like, hey, you can look at this differently. And excuse my language, but this ain't no slave shit. You know what I mean? This is more about empowerment because at the end of the day, what they did was they kind of finessed us. It was like, y'all know all the land and all the nature. And so they took that away and made us value these corporate, these paperwork, all that stuff. And then they went and took the land and the nature. So, you know.

Bro, that's some cold game. And he who controls your food controls you, you know what I mean? And if this last year showed anybody anything, like the prices went up. as soon as the pandemic hit you know what i mean like everything costs more and folks will run out of lettuce folks are running out of chicken folks are running out of milk you know and i ain't running out of shit i'm plugged in with y'all there you go i ain't plugged in with y'all hyper local and we're gonna have lights because we got these good you know soy candles and shit going on drop the social media one more time and let them know gratitude botanical farm y'all and y'all just go to website it's

gratitude atl.com amen Man, for all the people who, you know, may want to collab on, there's some more black farmers and stuff going to catch on to this, man. Oh, yeah, we definitely want to give a shout out to all our brothers and sisters that's out here doing this all across America from the big farms to the urban farms around the different communities, you know what I mean? Like, it really, this is something that's really going to change the game in America if we do this right.

Yeah, exactly. So we're just trying to, you know what I'm saying, you got to see it to be it, right? So we're just trying to be it. Yeah, it is. that's the perfect out right there man ain't no more to say man make sure you lock in so you can get you some

you know what I'm saying fresh lemon grass you can drink your hand take a bad friend gratitude ATM gratitude 8 to 5 South show black excellent spotlight

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