Malcolm's Garden
Courtesy of the New York Public Library
Malcolm X had parents, One from Georgia and the other from the Caribbean, who supported the cultivation of a family subsistence garden. They raised their children with an appreciation for Culinary self-sufficiency in the form of gardening, foraging, fishing and hunting. From a young age. Malcolm sought permission to start his own vegetable garden which he took meticulous care of. “I would pull out the grass in my garden by hand when the first little blades came up. I would patrol the rows on my hands and knees for any worms and bugs . . . and when I had everything straight and clean for my things to grow, I would lie down on my back between two rows, and I would gaze up in the blue sky at the clouds moving and think all kinds of things. “
