# @dwellmagazine on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DMi90roRhP-
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/33973781-dwellmagazine-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2025-07-25T21:45:49.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Dwell (@dwellmagazine) — https://gondola.cc/dwellmagazine

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Last autumn, the community garden—tucked between an elevated highway, industrial buildings, and a six-story apartment building—made its debut. From a tall redbrick hearth, Natalia Méndez, a cofounder of the nearby Oaxacan restaurant lamoradanyc, grilled fresh corn over an open fire and served steaming bowls of refried beans, fresh guacamole, and crispy flautas. Families enjoyed their meals and lounged in hammocks surrounding the outdoor fireplace. Curious visitors roamed the new raised beds, rainwater harvesting and purifying systems, greenhouse, and solar-powered bathroom—features that the garden’s steward (and Méndez’s daughter), Carolina Saavedra, had dreamed of since she began helping rehabilitate the 40-year-old green space in 2019 after it had fallen into disrepair. The project, named H.earth, is a collaboration between La Morada, the Bronx Land Trust, and nonprofit design collective territorialempathy. Together, the women-led team has transformed the garden into what it calls a sanctuary—a place for community care where people can get a meal, learn about sustainable gardening, or just rest. The plan is for the garden to become a resource for La Morada’s mutual aid kitchen, which began serving more than 500 free meals per day during the Covid pandemic and continues to do so. Against the backdrop of the South Bronx’s relatively slow recovery since the start of the pandemic, as well as multigenerational disinvestment that has included redlining and forced displacement due to highway construction, H.earth demonstrates how community-led architecture can help heal a neighborhood. Last fall, we spoke with the women behind the project about why it was important for them to complete. Read what they have to say at the link in our bio.
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Story by diana_b
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