THE G.A.T. CURRICULUM
Eliminate Nutritional Dependency
The G.A.T. Food Program is not just a gardening course—it’s a full-spectrum, community-rooted farming education. Our hands-on curriculum equips residents with the skills to grow, raise, and trade food right where they live. Each cohort learns the fundamentals of home gardening, soil health, composting, seed saving, and greenhouse cultivation, alongside the care and stewardship of live animals like chickens and goats.
Participants learn how to build raised beds, manage small-scale livestock, grow nutrient-rich produce, and practice cooperative economics—laying the groundwork for a self-sustaining, community-controlled food system. Whether you're planting your first seed or building a backyard coop, the G.A.T. curriculum is designed to reconnect residents with the power to feed, nourish, and liberate their own communities.
FULL-SPECTRUM EDUCATION
Grow at Home: Feed Your Family, Reclaim Your Power
Grow in the Community: Cultivate the Block
Full-Spectrum Farming: The Blueprint for Liberation
Our curriculum starts with the basics: how to grow food in your backyard, on your porch, or even in containers in your kitchen. We teach residents how to build raised beds, cultivate herbs and vegetables, care for fruit-bearing plants, compost kitchen waste, and even raise small animals like chickens—right at home. Feeding your family from your own land not only saves money, it creates freedom. It's food security that lives right outside your door.
Our neighborhoods are filled with vacant lots and overlooked land—perfect spaces to grow more than just food. In this section, participants learn how to transform underused spaces into vibrant, cooperative growing zones. From planting high-yield crops to constructing shared greenhouses and chicken coops, this is about reclaiming space for the people. We teach collective farming practices, rotational growing, composting at scale, and caring for community-raised animals like goats and chickens. These sites don’t just grow food—they grow economy, pride, and ownership, block by block.
This isn’t a feel-good hobby course. It’s a farming program built for community transformation. Participants engage in full-spectrum agriculture: from seed saving, soil science, and crop rotation to animal care, food preservation, and micro-enterprise. With every lesson, our people reclaim the skills and systems needed to break dependence on exploitative food industries and instead build a self-sustaining, community-owned supply chain—from farm to market to grocery store.