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Sister services, email, and search will continue to be negatively effected by the attacks. I made a thread to talk about it, if you're into networking.
"The Garden" is a 20 acre intentional living community in Lafayette, Tennessee, that recently rose to infamy through tiktok. Originally, the message being promoted was that all were welcome. But the attention turned negative and the internet labeled the community a cult.
Wishlist
Things that are always useful:toilet papertrash bagsbiodegradable dish soapcoffee & teabeddingropes & tarpsconstructiontin roofingwindowsdoorsmetal fencingwater tank 100-600Galwater barrels…
thefreegarden.org
The Garden Facebook Group
Other associated projects:
People's Project, a 501(c)3 nonprofit (archive)
FB Page
YT Channel
The Firefly Foundation
GoFundMe
archive
Circus of Purpose
WordPress
archive
Ex visitor
Tiktok profile
Video about their experience
From the FB group:
As a non-profit, they have access to free federal background checks for new members, but choose not to utilize them for any current or new members/visitors.
This, and their open door policy, has led to speculation that they have violent and or sex offenders living there. There is at least one individual living there with a domestic violence charges as recent as 2020. It's been said another person is on the sex offender registry but so far I have not found any evidence.
Persons of Interest
Property owner (partial)
Patrick Martin
Grew up in Rainbow Gathering and Rainbow Family of Living Light which is another group that gives off culty vibes.
The Garden was originally called Shut Up and Grow It, an offshoot of Rainbow Family's Shut up and Eat traveling kitchens.
WordPress
Notable residents
Arielle "Rel" Gumson
Rel brought much negative attention to the Garden with her strange behavior and ideals. She killed and ate a cat, skinned and wore her pet dog after it was hit by a car.
Tiktok
Has been at the Garden since at least 2019. Ate a cat.
In response to mass speculation on tiktok that The Garden is a cult, they made a cute little video about "drinking the koolaid" in obvious reference to Jonestown/People's Temple Massacre.
After the video was poorly received and many call outs, Rel gives this narcissistic performance in which she gaslights everyone, saying she doesn't even know what Jonestown was, and that this was a reference to the Tom Wolfe book, Electric Koolaid Acid Trip in which a band of merry pranksters doses people with LSD spiked Koolaid. The saying "Drink the Koolaid" is commonly known as being in reference to Jonestown, NOT the Tom Wolfe book. Nice try, though, Rel.
Killed, skinned, ate and wore a cat.
This is totally normal
Big views on racism.
Makes plenty of money, why work a real job?
Also needs money for boots one month later.
Speaks for itself
Skinned her beloved pet dog after it was hit by a car. Also wore it as a skirt.
This is totally normal
Big views on racism.
Makes plenty of money, why work a real job?
Also needs money for boots one month later.
Speaks for itself
Skinned her beloved pet dog after it was hit by a car. Also wore it as a skirt.
Jack "Tree" Forrester
Tiktok
YouTube
From Liverpool, UK. Despite being a recent arrival to The Garden (within the last year), Jack has become the more popular face on tiktok, called "knock off Ed Sheeran" gaining over 80,000 followers since January 2021.
Jack is from Liverpool, UK and has traveled to communes in Europe, Africa and Costa Rica and posts about his travels to his youtube channel and Tiktok. It was tree's video from February 2nd, inviting anyone and everyone to come visit the Garden, that went viral.
Julia Heim (tree's girlfriend)
TikTok
Trust fund baby from New York.
Flute Tramp aka Philip Guterez is another person living at the Garden. He has has an active warrant in Oregon, extensive criminal history in both Oregon and California. The cover photo for their youtube is the some QAnon Bs.
YouTube
On this channel is a video of a council meeting at the Garden, in which a bong is being passed around in front of very young children:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QRE4NJ_z1jI&ab_channel=FluteTramp (video saved locally but too large to upload directly)
Just within the last few days, there has been a chainsaw accident requiring a trip to the ER and a visit from the police in regards to a missing person (videos from this now-deleted TikTok profile)
*note the truck they use in this video has a Studio 54 logo on it. It's speculated by some that there is already a documentary filming in progress. Amill has stated that VICE wants to do a documentary on them but did not elaborate on when that might happen.
After the negative attention became too much, two residents and their children left the garden, more from them can be found at tiktok.com/@amillandbritt and https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCjOaucVEsadAANolaEPOTA/about. I removed them from this OP after they left the garden. The negativity prompted others to announce a departure from social media, which proved to be temporary.
By March 2021, the garden changed it's stance to say visitors were no longer welcome. Apparently Rel was asked to leave for a 2nd time because she refused to stop posting to social media.