Growing Health, Food Sovereignty, and Urban Agrarian Power.
Nature’s Candy Farms is CLEAN’s organic urban agriculture initiative dedicated to producing nutrient-dense food while restoring the relationship between land, health, and community. Operating as both a working farm and a living classroom, the program demonstrates how regenerative growing practices, culturally grounded foodways, and small-scale agricultural entrepreneurship can thrive in urban environments. Nature’s Candy Farms prioritizes soil health, ecological balance, and chemical-free cultivation while serving as a training ground for youth and adults to learn practical farming skills, food production, and value-added processing. Through this model, the farm advances food sovereignty, improves community health outcomes, and builds local economic resilience—proving that urban land can be a powerful engine for wellness, education, and sustainable livelihoods.
Cultivating Confident Stewards, Healthy Communities, and Sustainable Livelihoods.
Garden Like a Boss is CLEAN’s flagship education program designed to teach individuals, families, and communities how to be land stewards with confidence, efficiency, and purpose. The program blends hands-on urban agriculture, homesteading education, and entrepreneurial thinking to help participants move from beginner to self-sufficient agrarian—whether at home, in community gardens, or on small farms. Through practical instruction, culturally relevant teaching, and real-world application, Garden Like a Boss equips participants with the skills to improve health outcomes, reduce food insecurity, and create sustainable economic opportunities rooted in land stewardship and community empowerment.
Making lawns & gardens like Mom and Dad used to have and, just a little better!
CLEAN CUTS, etc. is CLEAN’s edible landscaping and sustainable lawn care program designed to reimagine lawns as productive, health-supporting ecosystems. The program integrates regenerative lawn care, food-producing landscapes, and ecological maintenance practices to help households, institutions, and communities transition from resource-intensive turf toward functional, edible, and environmentally responsible green spaces. By combining horticultural expertise, soil-first management, and culturally informed design, CLEAN CUTS, etc. delivers landscapes that enhance aesthetics while producing food, supporting pollinators, and improving soil and water health. Serving as both a service enterprise and a workforce development platform, the program creates pathways for skill-building, entrepreneurship, and local employment—demonstrating that land care can simultaneously generate beauty, nourishment, and long-term community resilience. Proceeds from every CLEAN CUTS, etc. transaction directly support the installation of home food gardens for qualified applicants, expanding equitable access to fresh, locally grown food.
Root-Cause Wellness for Chronic and Autoimmune Health.
CLEAN Care is CLEAN’s integrative health and wellness coaching program designed to support the healing, management, and prevention of chronic and autoimmune conditions through lifestyle-centered, education-driven care. The program emphasizes root-cause understanding—addressing nutrition, metabolic health, stress physiology, movement, sleep, and environmental exposures rather than symptom suppression alone. Through individualized coaching, structured education, and culturally responsive guidance, CLEAN CARE helps participants develop sustainable habits that support immune regulation, hormonal balance, and long-term resilience. Serving as a bridge between traditional health education and everyday lived practice, the program equips individuals and families with practical tools to reclaim agency over their health, reduce chronic disease risk, and cultivate durable well-being across the lifespan.
Cultivating Food, Culture, and Community at ArtsXchange
Fresh Oasis Community Garden is a collaborative urban agriculture initiative led by CLEAN in partnership with ArtsXchange, designed to transform shared cultural space into a living hub for food production, education, and community wellness. Established as both a community resource and an experiential learning site, the garden provides residents, artists, and neighbors with hands-on opportunities to grow fresh food, learn sustainable gardening practices, and reconnect with land-based traditions in an urban setting. Through collective stewardship, intergenerational engagement, and culturally relevant programming, Fresh Oasis Community Garden advances food access, environmental literacy, and community cohesion—demonstrating how creative spaces and regenerative agriculture can work together to nourish both people and place.
Ancient Knowledge for Modern Maintenance.
Pyramid Sunrise SMAI TAWI is CLEAN’s holistic movement and wellness program rooted in ancient Egyptian yogic science and Indigenous African systems of self-healing. The program utilizes SMAI TAWI—often described as the oldest known form of yoga—to support physical strength, emotional regulation, mental clarity, and spiritual alignment through intentional postures, breathwork, meditation, and ethical living principles. Designed as both a personal wellness practice and a communal healing space, Pyramid Sunrise SMAI TAWI helps participants restore balance within the nervous system, improve mobility and resilience, and cultivate disciplined self-awareness in a modern context. Through culturally grounded instruction and embodied practice, the program reconnects participants to ancestral knowledge while providing practical tools for stress reduction, trauma recovery, and sustainable whole-person well-being.
Dismantling Systems of Disease, Disparity, and Dependency.
The Eradicate Conference is a convening and knowledge-building platform designed to confront and resolve the root causes of chronic disease, economic instability, and social inequity within the African diaspora and allied communities. As a founding partner, CLEAN helps integrate evidence-based health education, systems thinking, cultural analysis, and practical solutions across the full spectrum of human activity—linking biology, economics, environment, education, law, and collective behavior. Through expert-led sessions, interdisciplinary dialogue, and actionable frameworks, The Eradicate Conference equips participants with the intellectual tools, strategic clarity, and communal alignment necessary to dismantle destructive systems, restore self-determination, and build sustainable pathways toward wellness, prosperity, and generational resilience.