Urban gardens aid in the fight against food deserts and climate change
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By Kennedi Hewitt
In South Central Los Angeles, across the street from the new metro system on Exposition Boulevard, is an urban garden owned by Ron Finley. Finley, also known as the “Gangster Gardener”, founded The Ron Finley Project to “transform food deserts into food sanctuaries.”
Finley, who has been gardening since he was a kid, says he views gardening as a source of freedom because it is an “empowering practice to grow your own food.”
“Everyone should at least have the potential to cultivate their own food,” he says, “cook their own food, and that to me is a form of freedom.”
South Central LA, a predominantly low income and Black and Brown community, is considered a food desert. As defined b...