Paige Emery started RADICAL GARDENING with the houseless community at Echo Park Lake to build community in a time of uncertainty, encampment sweeps, and ecological crisis. The guerilla garden is located in Echo Park Lake on the site where an 18 year old homeless girl, Brianna, died and will remain there until the city takes it down. RADICAL GARDENING is community/ kin/ symbiosis/ cultivation /growth/ gifting /intentionality/ care/ presence/ sustainability/eco-friendly. Will authority say it is not rightly on someone’s land, when that land didn’t belong to them in the first place? How can someone say the planting of new earth is not allowed on their land when it’s Tongva Land, and when the Tongva didn’t believe in land ownership in the first place? RADICAL GARDENING lives on this land in uncertainty, not knowing how long it will last through community support, just as the sheltering tents live there in uncertainty, sustaining through community support. Just as our lives breathe uncertainty and contingency now in this global pandemic, something that can be shared across humanity. RADICAL GARDENING is a celebration of LIFE on a place where 18-year old homeless Brianna died, her death uninvestigated due to the dehumanization from authority, where instead the houseless community themselves held a vigil commemorating her life, something that is not done amongst the homeless as many die unacknowledged. RADICAL GARDENING is building community from that very moment, building new life from that death. It is the coming together and planting seeds with intentions, being present with the terra and with each other, growing something that lacks discrimination and capitalism, together. Everything in the garden was donated or found from the community, and it will continue to grow as neighbors bring life to plant.