El A.K.A is a rapper, activist and coordinator of Agroarte, a collective from the depressed neighborhoods of Medellín that combines hip-hop, art, memory, and agriculture. Agroarte started to create ‘Jardines resistentes de vida’ (resistant gardens of life), an initiative to maintain a united community through gardening. First A.K.A. plants seeds, then he sings, because agriculture goes hand-in-hand with hip hop in the collective. These cultural expression are the most natural that come from the neighborhoods of Medellín. With the gardens, which grow vegetables and fine herbs, the community began to slowly appropriate sites that had always been theirs and they began to tell stories that had been silenced out of fear.
