"I wondered if it was possible to take a town like
Todmorden and focus on local food to re-engage people with the planet we live on, create the sort of shifts in behaviour
we need to live within the resources we have, stop us thinking like disempowered victims and to start taking responsibility
for our own futures." Pam Warhurst
What should a community do with its unused land? Plant food, of course. With energy and humor, Pam
Warhurst tells at the TEDSalon the story of how she and a growing team of volunteers came together to turn plots of unused
land into communal vegetable gardens, and to change the narrative of food in their community.
Pam Warhurst cofounded Incredible Edible, an
initiative in Todmorden, England dedicated to growing food locally by planting on unused land throughout the community.
http://www.incredible-edible-todmorden.co.uk/ Also see a great article here...
Stephen Ritz: A Teacher
Growing Green in the South Bronx
A whirlwind of energy
and ideas, Stephen Ritz is a teacher in New York's tough South Bronx, where he and his kids grow lush gardens for food,
greenery -- and jobs. Just try to keep up with this New York treasure as he spins through the many, many ways there are
to grow hope in a neighborhood many have written off, or in your own. (Filmed at TEDxManhattan.)
Ron Finley: A guerilla gardener in South Central LA
Ron Finley plants vegetable gardens in South Central
LA -- 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 grows a nourishing food culture in South Central
L.A.’s food desert by planting the seeds and tools for healthy eating. RonFinley.com and LAGreenGrounds.org
