Deeply Rooted is a project from PennMedicine + ChildrensPhila that aims to use the creation of mini-parks and gardens on vacant lots across Philly to not only improve health, but empower community, career development, and environmental justice advocacy.
When Aqil Abdus Sabur was a teenager growing up in Grays Ferry, he used to walk across the bridge to Southwest Philadelphia every Sunday for one reason: Southwest and West Philadelphia had more trees.Decades later, he’s one of the community leaders in a project to bring trees, gardens, and greenery — and the health benefits they engender — to four Philadelphia neighborhoods.
We recently spoke with Sabur, who works for Sister Clara Muhammad Community Development Corporation, and Eugenia South, an assistant professor of emergency medicine at Penn and faculty director of its Urban Health Lab.
Another finding was that people reported feeling less depressed. There was a direct link between this intervention — cleaning and greening a neighborhood — and people’s mental health. One of the major findings, the main thing we were looking for, was a reduction in gun violence. We found that it goes down significantly.Deeply Rooted is a community-academic collaborative, and that ordering of the words is purposeful, with community being first.
What about Deeply Rooted is different from other community improvement initiatives that you think will make it more successful?Deeply Rooted is definitely welcome in our neighborhood. The current statistics relating to employment and educational attainment are what they are. But this was always a thriving manufacturing and business community. A majority of residents, more than half, are between 5 and 35 years of age. It’s one of those places where people really love their neighborhood.
Right now, every generation’s kids go to the neighborhood library. That’s part of our growing up. I’d like to see education about trees, the benefits of green space, and activities that the succeeding generations can take advantage of and benefit from. It would just carry on into their adult lives. Like it did with me.
When you’re tending the garden, and when you have trees and landscape, you just get different discussions.We had our spring launch on May 14 with four events in each neighborhood.
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