Squash Blossoms & Zucchini Bread Urban Garden Design

List of donations for poorest elementary school in your nearest barrio/ghetto/site of former Japanese internment camp:

Plot of 1 full acre land hooked up to city water/drilled working well with excellent drinking water quality. Make sure federal government comes out monthly to test soil and water for lead, asbestos, mercury, radon, uranium, pH, HRT synthetic hormones, growth hormones, antibiotics, agricultural pesticides and insecticides.

The federal government scientists need to have a Ph.D in Chemistry, at the least. Check their credentials. Make sure they're not racist or classist against the barrios and ghettos. Ideally, they're also from the barrios and/or ghettos themselves.

100 used, giant, cleaned tractor trailer truck tires to use as garden beds (mechanical oil and brake dust-free), for 50 double-lined garden beds

100 used, good condition wood pallets for a vertical Mexican herb garden (structures stabilized with old, sealed deck wood, not pre-1980, to avoid lead paint risks)

50 five-foot high tomato towers, made from organic, unpainted bamboo and undyed twine/sisal ropes

50 bags of aphid-eating ladybugs from organic nursery to release second week of June, every year

100 gallons organic neem oil, not de-scented, without petroleum, for organic fungicide, insecticide every year. Reapply every single week, during growing season, especially after watering and any rainfall. Use drip watering, not overhead misting/watering on plants. Check all hoses, connectors, and sprayers on a weekly basis for deterioration and leaks.

Water irrigation system installed by a professional female, minority plumber with appropriate exterior connectors, hoses from the well or city water pipes to each garden bed. Use brand new metal or hard plastic hoses, made from recyled materials, not rubber or soft plastic for the drip watering system.  Make sure there is no lead in it.

100 gallons of food-safe liquid beeswax, mixed with organic garlic, habanero and lemongrass oil, every year. 75% liquid beeswax, 25% garlic/habanero/lemongrass oils is okay for preventing rabbit browsing. It'll suffocate invasive insect larvae too. Avoid applying in windy conditions. Wear goggles and long gardening gloves. Don't let it get into contact with any of the children's skin or eyes.

Wash any herbs, or produce well in safe drinking water and a little bleach liquid to kill e. coli, salmonella, listeria and hepatitis. Soak in a well-mixed solution of 5 gallons cold, safe drinking water, with 4 full cups of chlorine bleach (liquid), 1 cup of concentrated liquid dishwasher soap (not for the dishwasher). Soak everything at least 30 minutes, including hand scrubbing some with a reusable dishwashing washcloth. Then, rinse everything well with safe drinking water. You need to ensure the spicy anti-wildlife/anti-insect spray oils are removed well from the herbs and produce. Never mix ammonia products with chlorine bleach. Just use generic-brand white vinegar to clean bathroom metal guard rails, glass, and mirrors. It's more economical and safer for everyone, including illiterate English language learners. Check all cleaning ingredients first.

Everything, even organic products must be locked up from the children, in a well-lit, well-labeled cleaning shed. Remember to label everything in both Spanish and English with photos, laminated. 8x10-inch labels. The poor can't always afford eyeglasses, or literacy so you need to always keep this in mind.

500 gallons of concentrated, phosphate-free, river-safe, ammonia-free dishwashing (not for the dishwasher) soap to hose off insects and caterpillars.

Bird and insect netting: enough to double net 50 garden beds, only made from recycled products. Use sealed (rust-resistant) steel rebars, 12 ft high, four per garden bed. Sink each steel rebar at least 4 ft deep into the well-tilled, enriched garden soil.  8 ft of steel rebar should stand straight from ground on all four sides of each garden bed. Then double net each truck tire garden bed. Cut down and sew velcro into double layered bird and insect netting so you can open it for pruning/spraying neem/beeswax oil, harvesting/soft twining to bamboo structures. You can collect used, well-cleaned window and door screens for this. Duct tape or wire it together.

Soft gardening twine, 200 quantity of twelve-foot high steel rebars for 50 garden beds total.

Heavy machinery to dig garden bed holes and install buried, double perimeter bear/rabbit/elk/deer-proof fencing. (Only use this after clearing your dig locations with the local utility company to prevent hitting a natural gas/buried power/sewage/water lines)

Aged, organic manure (from organic dairy goats/organic dairy sheep, free-range), enough to fill 12 of the largest-sized construction dumpsters or tractor trailer truck beds, manure aged at least 24 months, to be delivered twice a year, every year.

Till/mix it well (4 ft deep, with at least 3 passes over the ground) into soil before and after the planting/harvest times, but only after clearing this with your local utility company first, every single time you till it. Till it right before planting and right after you harvest, twice a year total. Remember not to do it until after you clear this every single time with your utility company first.

Double perimeter fencing to prevent rabbits, prairie dogs, bear, elk, and deer-browsing, at least 12 ft high from ground, metal, buried 6 ft underground. Fence should be 18 ft high total. Long enough to go twice around 1 acre plot of land.

24 well-lit, wheelchair-accessible (with covered, non-icy ramps, sturdy guard rails for varying heights), bathrooms with running water for flushing toilets, deep sinks (for washing hands, and produce). 12 for males, 12 for females, each for varying ages, including babies, toddlers and small, blind elementary-aged children in wheelchairs.  Make sure you have 24 indoor water fountains in varying, wheelchair-accessible heights, inside each gender bathroom.

Two wide, lockable, well-lit entrances, large enough for four Ford F-350 trucks to fit through. One marked clearly for entrance only. The second marked clearly for exiting only. Both marked on both sides in Spanish and English, to prevent the English-as-a-Second-Language learning children from getting hit or run over by trucks and heavy machinery.

Organic, full-sized plants (hardened off gradually from indoor nursery conditions for outdoor climate, altitude) for making heirloom tomato salsas, Mexican zucchini quinoa breads, heirloom red, white and blue July 4th corn tamales and squash blossoms with red, white and blue bean July 4th soup. Plant after second week of June. Label plants clearly in Spanish and English with photos, laminated. Make sure it's 8x10 inches in size, since the poor barrio/ghetto don't have enough money for eyeglasses, which is a very typical, tragic challenge for them, as they struggle to learn how to read.

Use mulch only made and delivered from a small local, Mexican and Female-owned landscaping business that recycles old, cleaned tires in landfill into mulch.  Check with the Small Business Administration for this. Make sure that same small business secures a small business loan at 0% interest rate, 30-year, fixed term, to cover ten years of overhead costs, with waived/zero loan processing fees. Sue the top ten largest banks in the state, in a class action discrimination lawsuit for the funds and 50% of their executive-level position jobs. Fill those slots with female, Democratic minorities from the actual barrios/ghettos. Also, ensure that same Mexican, Female-owned small business also wins the federal government bid to manage the educational July 4th garden for the local poorest Headstart/elementary schools in each state.

Gather the entire Democratic Party within each state to strategize, plan and execute this July 4th urban garden. They can make this all possible by July 4th, every year. Every year, plan on aquiring one more acre. Change is possible, but only one acre at a time, in every barrio/ghetto. As with gardening, civil rights victories can also occur with patience and persistence.