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March 15, 2013
Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened.
-Sir Winston Churchill
Ron Finley plants vegetable gardens in South Central Los Angeles — 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."
Ron Finley tells his story in an engaging TedTalk presentation. Watch for when he talks about the impact of gardening on the kids and about turning the kids away from gangs into becoming "ecolutionaries" and "gangster gardeners."
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Displaying 1 CommentSpirit Child Yoga and ECE
Aurora, ON, Canada
Great messages here. Years ago, I used to garden with the children in the child care I managed. I used to hear ridiculous arguments against the kids eating what they planted, "It hasn't been inspected or approved." The thing was, the kids did eat the peas and beans and carrots we grew. The fellow in the TED Talk was right about sunflowers: they do have an amazing effect on people. Parents would ask how it was the children didn't run through the garden. I'd explain that the children wanted to protect "their baby plants". The children loved finding worms and insects.
Of course many of my female colleagues didn't like the worms, the insects or the untidiness of the garden. They didn't enjoy digging. I don't believe they saw the value. After I left, the garden was paved over with rubberized surface.
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