Gardens Supplying Fresh Food For People Who Live in Food Desert, by Lauren Mei

November 19, 2020

People are changing, starting to have hope. Over the last decade, beginning in 2011, Ron Finley has been planting gardens next to the sidewalks in South Los Angeles so that his neighborhood is no longer a food desert. Ron has inspired people to not only eat more healthily but to take better care of their streets and neighbors. Ron Finley believes to change your community you must change the composition of the soil, since our future as a human species depends upon the soil. He wants to make gardens all over the world.



Ron Finley states, "Growing your own food is like printing your own money." Certainly the statistics back up his assertion. Despite the skyrocketing global population, garden planting has kept pace, and today there are only 500 million reported hungry and food insecure people in the U.S., the lowest such number since 1995.

Local gardens are spreading throughout the worlds. Some schools like Catlin Gabel have gardens in their school, while many neighborhoods maintain community gardens. The hope is growing with each new seed planted.