From RON FINLEY
A guerilla gardener in South Central LA
Here is one of the finest TED talks I have ever seen. “Gardening is the most defiant act you can do in the city”, “Get gangsta with your shovel” and “plant some shit”. Brilliant.
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I've observed that people tend to live at one of two extremes in the spectrum of life: those who live on the edge, and those who avoid the edge. Those who live on the edge are hanging out in the most dangerous and unstable places — yet they're also often the most powerful agents of change, because the edge is where change is happening; away from the edge, things are naturally unchanging. ~Thom Hartmann
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The truth is that we are reaching starvation levels in many parts of the world. This is a courageous antidote that we can all learn from and follow.
I put off watching this for a long time and am glad I finally did. In previous seasons I have maintained a browsing garden on my back porch for visitors, lettuce and sugar snaps went well. Hope I pull out of this slump to do that again this year.
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