About The Collective
Pangea Garden Collective (PGC) Atlanta based movement focused on teaching communities the importance of food sovereignty and reclaiming their connection to the land. We do this by educating people on how to grow their own food on an individual scale, as well as how to create local food systems for their community.
Our Core Values
Collective Growth
Growing as individuals and as a community.
Climate Justice
Addressing systemic inequities through education and sustainable practices.
Food Sovereignty
Ensuring communities have the power to grow, trade, and access fresh, local food.
Heritage
Reclaiming and celebrating ancestral ties to the land.
The Mission
Pangea Garden Collective exists to teach people how to grow food anywhere no matter their location, space, or income. While connecting our communities to heritage, food sovereignty, and environmental care.
In 2026 we will expand accessible workshops and resources, and build hyperlocal partnerships with organizations and schools to reach more first-time growers. We are laying the groundwork for nonprofit status and a future community space where learning, growing, and mutual support thrive.
About the Founder
Rakiia Butler is a grower, educator, and environmental justice advocate based in Atlanta, Ga. Her journey into gardening was inspired by her mother’s love for plants and holistic health, which planted the seeds for her own curiosity about food, wellness, and our connection to the land. Over time, that curiosity grew into a calling to help others remember that growing food is not just a skill, but a birthright.
Meet Doug
A 200-million-year-old earthworm in tiny sunglasses who has watched everything grow and is worried about none of it.
Doug has been in the soil since Pangea. When the supercontinent split, everyone made a big deal about it. Doug stayed put, because the dirt was fine. He has composted empires, outlasted five extinction events, and personally aerated the ground under every “nothing will grow here” that was ever said. All of those places grew.
He came up to the surface recently because he heard someone say anyone can grow anywhere, and he wanted to confirm, on the record, that this has always been true. He is the collective’s oldest member and its least impressed.
“It’s dirt. I live here. You’ll be fine.” — Doug
Pangea Garden Collective |South Fulton, Georgia 