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While the Plant Chica continued to complete online orders after the eviction, Mejia doubted whether she should continue the business at all.

Other hallmark Plant Chica events include queer poetry readings hosted by Cuties Los Angeles, yoga classes hosted by Black Women’s Yoga Collective and, of course, the store’s popular Adopt-a-Plant series.

The idea, she said, is, “Don’t just get back in your car after visiting the Plant Chica. Here’s this map. Go support the other businesses.”

That peer support includes businesses found on the Plant Chica’s own lawn.

A bill currently winding through the Texas state legislature could give the new city's officials the ability to close a local highway and limit access to nearby Boca Chica Beach and Boca Chica State Park during rocket launches and other company activity.