This morning we saw a movie called The Garden. The film was about a garden in South Central in the city of Los Angeles. The garden was taken care of by the people of the community. The people who used the garden were going to be evicted by the owner of the land. The owners name is Ralph Horowitz. The people had been farming there for over 10 years and now they were going to be evicted for reasons they didn’t know so they decided to fight against Ralph Horowitz.

First they went to the City Council and the Council said that they couldn’t help them because the land was rightfully Ralph Horowitz. But after that, they still didn’t give up and they found out that Ralph Horowitz made a deal with the city and he sold the land for much more than it was worth. He sold it for 5 million and then the city sold it back to him for the same price.

After that he told the people in the garden that they could buy the land for 16.3 million. I think he told them that because he thought that they wouldn’t be able to raise that much money. But the farmers began to fundraise money to buy the land. They had 5 weeks to raise the money. By the end of the 5 weeks they raised 16.3 million dollars but Ralph refused to sell the land to them. Soon after all of the people were evicted. On the day of the eviction the farmers had a protest in front of the garden and some were beaten and arrested by the police. And they also had to watch them destroy the crops that they worked hard to grow for ten years.

The farmers were devastated. Soon after the city gave them land but the land was under power plants and there was also cement still under ground. Some other farmers started farming again and they sold their crops in a farmer’s market in Los Angeles.