{"id":647670,"date":"2013-03-19T13:31:27","date_gmt":"2013-03-19T17:31:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.ted.com\/?p=73409"},"modified":"2013-03-19T13:33:30","modified_gmt":"2013-03-19T17:33:30","slug":"a-garden-party-with-ron-finley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/647670","title":{"rendered":"A garden party with Ron Finley"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Ron-Finley-garden-1\"\u201cYou ain\u2019t gangsta unless you have a garden,\u201d says Ron Finley of\u00a0LAGreenGrounds.org<\/a>. In this special video for CNN, Finley shares more about the\u00a0idea he posited at TED2013<\/a>\u00a0for improving health in his neighborhood of South Central Los Angeles — planting edible gardens wherever a strip of land is available.<\/p>\n

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\u201cWhat we do is literally put vegetable gardens in homes in South Central, free of charge,\u201d says Finley.\"RonRon Finley: A guerilla gardener in South Central LA<\/span><\/a> \u201cWe like front yards better than back yards because of the visibility front yards have. We want people to see the food.\u201d<\/p>\n

Last weekend, Finley held a full-out gardening party to plant a vegetable garden at The R Cloud House, an artist-in-residence house\u00a0conspicuously located across from the\u00a0L.A. Watts Towers<\/a>. 20 TEDActive attendees attended the party, with friends in tow, working alongside Finley and volunteers from\u00a0Heavy T\u2019s Grow Show<\/a>. Mud Baron from Muir Ranch<\/a> donated soil, while Ray Cirino and\u00a0Large Marge Sustainables<\/a>\u00a0provided food for volunteers. Together, the group planted corn, tomatos, strawberries, dill, thyme, basil, mint\u00a0and swiss chard.<\/p>\n

See tons of incredible photos shot during this planting party \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n

And read an essay Finley wrote for CNN \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n

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\u201cYou ain\u2019t gangsta unless you have a garden,\u201d says Ron Finley of\u00a0LAGreenGrounds.org. In this special video for CNN, Finley shares more about the\u00a0idea he posited at TED2013\u00a0for improving health in his neighborhood of South Central Los Angeles — planting edible gardens wherever a strip of land is available. \u201cWhat we do is literally put vegetable […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7344,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-647670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647670","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7344"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=647670"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647670\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=647670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=647670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=647670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}