- 26.5 Million Americans live in a Food Desert
- The drive-thrus are killing more people than the drive-bys
- Obesity rate in my neighborhood is like 5 times higher than Beverly Hills, which is probably 8-10 miles away
- Food is the problem AND the solution
- The City of LA owns 26 square miles of vacant lots, the equivalent of 20 Central Parks, or enough room for 724,838,400 tomato plants
- Growing your own food is like printing your own money
- To change a community, you have to change the composition of the soil -- we are the soil
- Gardening is the most therapeutic and defiant act you can do -- especially in the inner city
- If kids grow kale, kids eat kale
- I see kids of color and they’re on this track -- that’s designed for them -- that leads them to nowhere
- Gardening is a path to a sustainable life
- Free is not sustainable, the funny thing about sustainability...you have to sustain it
- Get gangsta with a shovel and let that be your weapon of choice
- Don’t call me if you want to have meetings and sit in cushy chairs and talk about doing shit. If you want to meet with me, come to the garden with a shovel.
- PLANT SOME SHIT
Great information here. I'm looking forward to owning some property and growing a garden ASAP.
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