Name: Guerilla Gardening in South Central LA
Uploaded: 2016-01-23T07:23:02
Duration: 10 min
Description: 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." Find out more at LA Green Grounds.

Guerilla Gardening 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."

Find out more at LA Green Grounds.

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