Live from Community Roots Garden in Oxnard, California, this joint RAMA Blueprints/Que Madre podcaast. Co-hosts Socorro and Ana Rosa-Rizo Centino reflect on a February 28 stakeholder meeting about the garden’s transition and future. Guests include Fatima Chavez Lopez, a first-generation Chicana doula and traditional Mexican medicine practitioner, and Angela Flores, a third-generation Chicana activist-artist and land steward. Angela shares how Zapatista women’s organizing shaped her understanding of rematriation and environmentalism; Fatima connects returning to land with returning to self, intuition, trauma healing, and birth sovereignty. They discuss partnerships, a proposal to the United Methodist Church, building a community land trust with Chumash Bear Circle, and hopes for future generations grounded in transparency, reciprocity, imagination, and collective care.

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Under the Avocado Tree is produced by RAMA Blueprints and Que Madre podcasts. This episode was engineered and edited by Darren J. de Leon.