  The Garden centers around a community’s struggle to hold onto
a fourteen-acre garden in South Central Los Angeles. The
community’s struggle received widespread attention in 2004-2006,
when the farmers were fighting the city of Los Angeles and
developer Ralph Horowitz to maintain control of the garden,
ultimately working to raise funds to buy the land. The community
garden was established on government property following the 1992
riots and was the largest of its kind in the U.S.  The details
of the story provide great footage: a wealthy developer engages
in a shady real-estate deal with the city of Los Angeles to
acquire the property, a city council member helps push through
the secret deal, tensions between the Black and Latino
communities complicate matters, while the impoverished Latino
farmers at the heart of the story struggle not just for land but
their livelihoods.  The fourteen-acre garden was originally
owned by developer Horowitz but the city acquired it under
eminent domain, paying him $5 million.