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TED: A Guerilla Gardener in South Central Los Angeles

submitted by eric3579

1 decade 1 year 8 months 3 weeks ago

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Ron Finley plants vegetable gardens in South Central LA -- in abandoned lots, traffic medians, along the curbs. Why? For fun, for defiance, for beauty and to offer some alternative to fast food in a community where "the drive-thrus are killing more people than the drive-bys. -yt

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Gardening is hella gangsta!

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Plant that shit! But seriously, food was first commercially grown to pay workers, food WAS the money. If everyone can come together and grow food everywhere like he wants, then the suburban middle-class may actually come back.

I think it's intimidating to consider doing this without use of unsustainable modern farming and gardening practices that rely on petroleum input. The soil needs to be restored periodically somehow via laying fallow, having the right animals in there at the right time, etc. It's not good to keep going and buying soil additives every year. Also, the water in Los Angeles is by definition, I think, unsustainable. I still think this is great and I might check out their next event since I live in the area. Maybe they have already thought of all this!

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How can water be unsustainable by definition? What is the definition of water?

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