Gangster Gardeners

03/15/2013

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."

Early Childhood Summer Institute June 24 - 27, 2013

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