This Fast Company article describes how one man helped change a Los Angeles ordinance that required it's citizens to pay a $400 permit fee to have a garden in the strip of land (owned by the city) between the sidewalk and the street.
Gardens are now free. But, this is guerrilla gardening, Ron Finley-style. A man who was once given an arrest warrant for planting carrots.
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"I'm not one of those academics that don't do shit but reads about it. The difference is, I do shit.
I have a proof of concept and it works. I don't need studies—I know that this kid put a carrot in the ground and she saw it grow, and she took it out of the ground and was proud as hell,
and she wiped it off and put it in her mouth and ate it. Now she has skin in the game."
I have a proof of concept and it works. I don't need studies—I know that this kid put a carrot in the ground and she saw it grow, and she took it out of the ground and was proud as hell,
and she wiped it off and put it in her mouth and ate it. Now she has skin in the game."