Ron Finley: Guerilla gardening in South Central L.A.
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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.”
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Guerilla Gardening: A Manualfesto
Please Mr. Finley, would you be a guest on The Survival Podcast? You fit right in with what we are doing there and your story is so beautiful.
Thank you & God’s Blessings to you!
Ronnie in Iowa
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