The Lavender Project is a community centered agriCULTURE initiative rooted in storytelling, land based education, and collective care. It exists in response to the long history of exclusion, erasure, and harm experienced by communities of color and LGBTQIA people within agriculture, food systems, and land access spaces.

At its core, The Lavender Project creates entry points into farming, gardening, and food justice work that feel accessible, affirming, and culturally grounded. The project recognizes that relationships to land are shaped by history, identity, and lived experience, and that healing and learning often happen best through shared stories and hands on engagement.

The Lavender Project uses photography, documentation, public programming, and community based education to support environmental awareness, food access, and visibility for growers and communities who are often overlooked. Through partnerships with farms, gardens, artists, educators, and organizers, the project centers observation, reflection, and dialogue as tools for learning and accountability.

Rather than focusing on a single issue, The Lavender Project works at the intersection of climate, agriculture, food access, and education. It prioritizes long term relationship building, community informed practices, and the belief that food systems work must be rooted in care, dignity, and representation.

The Lavender Project is guided by lived experience and grounded in the understanding that land, culture, and community are deeply connected. Its work is not about extraction or performance, but about showing up consistently, listening closely, and supporting pathways toward more just and inclusive food futures.