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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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I'm honored and humbled that so many have been inspired by my talk. We can change the game! Now go #plantsomeshit !!
You sir are very special. I watched a documentary on Netfix on you. I had asked for years why in places like south LA did not have more healthy food. Was it business because people wouldn't buy it or because it is set up that way for a reason? Seeing your world with in another world brought tears to my eyes. I applaud you and thank you for doing what you have done. Much love to you!!!
R Finley I've had the same dream!!!
Kids not being able to eat lunch at school and the things they serve is appalling I would like you to visit Guam sir please I would like to help bring green grounds here to guam
R Finley you are amazing! I vote you for President! Keep up the good work, you are truly a blessing to your community locally and to all of us nationally!
R Finley FACTS! Keep up the great work Food is free! Get to growing my people!
I so love this talk, mate! I came back because Paris is now allowing folks to plant stuff on the pavements, due to lack of green space. I'm inspired to start gardening again, and I am going to do it this time! I'll start off indoors with herbs (due to the colder weather this time of year in England) but will get the outside ready for next year and will get the neighbours involved too! Thank you, so much.
"Growing your own food is like printing your own money." I love this!!
+Laura Snip It is definitely considered a radical idea and the city initially considered him a troublemaker. His plight reminds me of what Steve Jobs once said about such radical thinkers.
"Here's to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the round pegs in the square holes... the ones who see things differently -- they're not fond of rules... You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them, but the only thing you can't do is ignore them because they change things... they push the human race forward, and while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius, because the ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world, are the ones who do." - Steve Jobs
Yessss
What can the planting of 50 million trees in one day teach us about our own failed abilities to create change in our own respective countries? And what really makes a good citizen on this planet? Is it marching before the White House? Is it holding a piece of paper that promises you certain rights and privileges because of where your zip code happens to be? Or is there more to it?
infiniteshift.wordpress.com/2017/02/03/i-uv-india-plants-50-million-trees-in-24-hours-lessons-on-the-power-of-one/
yep planting runner beans or petit pois even marigolds is like planting your own money trees, just a different colour of gold !!!
Amen!🙏
If you even cut your food bill by a quarter, that's still hundreds of dollars (pounds in my case) saved per year, healthier food, something to do with other people, and building a skill that may act as a fall back for a little extra money. Crops and flowers are more interesting than grass anyway
This TED Talk *literally* changed my life! The very next day after watching it, my young son and I went out and planted herbs and vegetables in a plot out in front of our house. The next season, we began gardening with the children in the international Montessori school we founded in central Japan, using that produce to prepare school lunches. A few years later, we sold it all and my family and I moved to Italy, where I studied sustainable food systems at a cooking school in Sicily. Now, we travel the world full time, learning about and sharing the languages and global culinary traditions of every place we've lived (and even some of the places we still want to go!). Thank you, Mr. Finley, for sharing your passion with the world in such a powerful way!!! #plantsomeshit
😃😃😃❤❤❤❤❤
Please visit his when you are in LaLa Land. AllGoodThings
@@RFinleysuniverse Absolutely!!! 💜💜💜
That's incredible
@@rachelmacdonald9195 Thank you! 💜😃💜
BIGGEST tip for gardening: Just start. (You'll learn as you grow.)
The Plant Life - Canada I started. Now I just need things to stop dying.
Started a small garden last year (very small) and literally had to give away vegetables. It was waaaaay too much for my family to eat. Thought, “ What if 3 houses per block did this?” We’d feed everybody
Pun intended?
Short Zumba Workouts With Camille youtube has lots of how to videos: MIGardener etc, just do your research and all will be well.
koruki i hope so
This is one of the best Ted Talks I've ever seen
For real!
Me
Agreed!
Bar None #1 !! 🍅❤️🍅
Same💕
“Gardening is my graffiti. I grow my art.” I think my life has changed forever.
Why am I crying! As an African when my feet touched American soil I was appalled at the waste of green grass and sprinklers..green perfectly trimmed lawns. I asked my host why are people not putting this so much energy and water on lawns with edible plants instead. Giving the fact that I was already traumatized seeing unhealthy Americans at the airport and everywhere my eyes looked. Seeing this man speak my mind is a blessing!! Respect!!
Been asking myself (and others) a similar question last couple of years. Why do we need lawns? I'm not going to eat that grass. My kids can do cartwheels on it but other than that whats the point? I'd rather harvest food than cut grass.
I totally agree, he speaks my mind and heart exactly. There are people in America who think like you do. And when you are one of these people you feel kind of alone
You are so sweet ✌️🐞🐝☘️💞🐛🔥🍒🙏
African Mom you have food in africa?
@@lazarus_8589 I think that's her point. Coming from hardship then seeing the waste in the richest country in the world was disconcerting. Being that Americans throw away a third of the food they purchase and our most heavely irrigated crop is lawn grass I have to agree with her
Gardens are not only good for people's individual health, they're also good for the city's environment. Many plants can absorb things like smog and other harmful chemicals, and rooftop gardens can help reduce temperatures on the streets down below.
They're also very effective at increasing biodiversity and social cohesion while also reducing stress.
+JP Sheehan Gardens help to absorb all the yin energy in places like S.C. with all of it coming from 土 and 金.
Working in a garden is good for mental health, also!
and bring foraging insects!
"get gangsta wit yo shovel!" now that's a good idea! :D
there was actually a fight between two girls that went viral over a year ago, one of the girls smacked the other with a shovel. i wonder if she got inspired by this TED talk? lol.
*****
no way! o.O
yh, look it up on youtube. she even went on Dr.phil after that incident, it was hilarious.
*****
i'm good but thanx.
Whose reading this in 2020...in the mist of a Pandemic...SMH
He sent the answer 7 years ago...God is GOOD
Faye Toliver this was recommended to me and So glad I watched.
Yes!
Also: God, he's good! 😉
Yeah.... good ol' god releasing a pandemic on his subjects. Yep. Deserves praise, don't he?
Yes me toooo
This is by far the most potentially trans-formative ted talk. I love this one.
Practical, useful, creative solutions. I love it.
He's got syle AND substance. People that talk flashy like he does usually only have the style. That's pretty rare. It's fairly difficult to be accurate, precise and inspiring at the same time. Yet somehow he does it.
It's magic! Thank you.
"To change a community, change the composition of the soil!!" Great Quote!
"Funny thing about sustainability...you have to sustain it." I love it!!!
thetrashyboy Compost all you can and watch the soil become rich in nutrients.
Water the plants with rinse water from the kitchen when there is no rain.
Nurture the edible weeds like dandelions and plantain and stinging nettles.
God is using this brother! This is what I want to see on a TED talk!
Yep Jesus Christ has plans for all our life.
AMEN TO SEXY GANGSTA GARDENING.
I agree always wanted to learn to grow my own vegs
"the soil as your canvas" this could start a movement especially in these times when our food supply may be compromised - grow your own
This is how to take power back, not with violent revolution. The power has always been with the people but we have been convinced that it has been taken from us. Top guy. I'm already following in his footsteps by learning how to grow my own food to take back my health.
***** Truely, this guy is a black Forest Gump guy. Simple minded, but genious, good & always right.
Wowowowowowow Katebushfan
I'm not sure what you mean. Do you mean 'take over feel' as in some organisation taking over the town?
I've not had any experience with community gardens here in England.
Wowowowowowow Katebushfan
I think I know what you mean.
A friend of mine went to a protest and took food she had collected from local organisations that made donations. She was just an individual doing her own thing for the people there. She soon found out that a heirarchy of control freaks had set itself up. The food she was going to hand out had been co-opted and put to the side. She was "NOT ALLOWED" to hand it out herself, even though she was the one who brought it there.
I dislike most community-oriented activities because control freaks always get in charge of people. When things are made common or public, you just know someone will take control over it and start making rules "for the greater good".
Wowowowowowow Katebushfan
Common purpose makes me cringe. I see the purple and green colours of their campaign everywhere here, even on the housing agency I was with at one point in my life.
I had a bad experience with them when they attempted to exert a "right" to enter my flat at "any time" they deemed necessary. I claimed my right to privacy as an individual and they simply shat all over my claim, threatening to evict me over something they had knowledge of for years but had not acted upon at the time (a friend stayed over for a few nights). They used sneaky tactics and colour of law.
We are living in a world where control freaks attempt to convince us that "law and order", "protocols" and "policies" are going to save us from every bad thing that could possibly occur.
The question we must ask is: "Why would anyone go out of their way to try to make our lives better?" The answer is simple. "Because they want to control our lives and anything associated with it." They have no real interest in helping people other than themselves.
+Jim Griffiths THIS is your evidence that violence won't work? what if every time you grow something the cops come with guns and batons and handcuffs and destroy it all? how do you keep your food alive then, with no violence?
Here in 2020 and this is one of the best TED Talks ever.
Here's an uplifting reminder that for every problem we face, there are people working on brilliant, innovative solutions
I heard of you on an italian radio station, liked it a lot. My respect and greetings from Italy
"Growing Your Own Food, Is like
Printing Your Own Money."
That got me back then 2013, still not let me go. We now #printingourownmoney
Limpopo, South Africa.
Yes people are now listening!
Gardening IS therapeutic!! I absolutely LOVE this message. As a child I watched my mom plant any and everything. As an adult, gardening is one of the ways my mom and I connect. And having my own home, it is absolutely what makes me happy!
This talk was inspiring beyond words! Thank you Mr. Finley.
So happy you came back to it. Take care.
You Are so welcome!!
Truly inspirational! wake up people! grab a garden fork and go plan(t) your future!
suburban homestead Fact!
Great intelligence portrayed in such simple words.
This is probably the most revolutionary ideology i've ever heard
Give this man a voice in the media and he will cause a green anarchy with people living in non-violent community's! Much respect Ron Finley!
and, by talking back to the powers that didn't want the garden (didn't look hard at the idea at first) . He changed the law !!
We NEED this over here in Detroit!!!!
So DO IT.
I'm trying
Sounds like he needs people to help. One man can create change, but he needs the help of others to change the world.
Big D needs to get it done. This post is 6 years old and seeds are 2 bucks a packet.
How is it working out?
Revolutionaries are changing the world. Ron Finley is awesome. Thank you for your service to humanity!
+Julia Adame You are most certainly on the mark! His way of thinking and radical action reminds me of the following Steve Jobs quote:
"Here's to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the round pegs in the square holes... the ones who see things differently -- they're not fond of rules... You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them, but the only thing you can't do is ignore them because they change things... they push the human race forward, and while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius, because the ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world, are the ones who do."
Much respect. I am so inspired by your efforts, Ron Finley.
Respect to You John
R Finley
"True wealth is in a man's labor". John Locke 1632-1704
such a genuine good soul, its pure enjoyment watching this!
This is one of the funner TedTalks I've seen, and it's loaded with quotables!
"If you want to meet with me, meet me in the garden....with your shovel!"
#respect #growfood #growfoodnotlawns
Growing your own food is like printing your own money! That should get the attention of our young folks. Great way of putting it. I love this project!
I'm a school teacher in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and Ron motivated me to want to go out in our hood and help the homeless as well as plant some stuff.
Monias Hannah How is it going now?
@@louisegogel7973 give loop or
I've watched this multiple times and get inspiration evertime
Me too.
This man is great. He's the coolest of the cool.
You have motivated me to create my own garden and share everything
I planted a garden in my apartment yesterday because this video inspired me so much. Thank you Mr. Finley
Watching this while in quarantine! Growing your own food is gangsta cool!
“Grow your own food is like printing your money own money.”
- renegade gardener
It moves me to tears that the solutions are so simple yet so many seek to put stumbling blocks to prevent the solutions from becoming a reality. We need to flip the system.
I so love this man. As I brought in swiss chard for tonight's dinner, I thought of Ron. I grew up gardening. And I love that here in AZ we get to garden all year round. I think I need to have Ron on my podcast!
Lee Travathan please invite him to your podcast to get the word out! I’m in NYC planting my parking spots with flowers, but why not with veggies? 🦋
@@pianoplants7884 I'd love it. He is such an inspiration. And makes so much sense!
📣"To change the community you have to change the composition of the soil" Whooooooo!🎯🎯🎯
Gob bless you brother! I started my backyard garden this year! And I have 4 hens & a rooster! I'm getting down!
How can you argue with this. Respect!
absolutely
Wow he got me crying with happy tears of joy. This was by far the best TED Talk I've seen in some time. Powerful message! "Lets Plant Some Shitl
much love to you, ron finley. my mom was one of the victoms who died april 29th, 2016, from cancer. non smoker, non drinker, but eat alot of processed foods. thank you for encouraging others to grow their own foods.
I salute all, who takes action and plants a garden. I grow healing herbs and beginning to plant vegetables. Being with the Mother is the absolute healing.
Love this. Every school should have a gardening program. Food is life. Love your passion and mission! Amen🙏
WoW! "We are the soil!"
God bless you R. Finley.
Ron Finley. A real American Hero. Whenever there's trouble Ron Finley is there.
I'm not even a good gardener but I'd love to volunteer with his group.
me too man. Me too
You dont magically get good at gardening. You learn from books, people, but mostly, you learn from experience. There isn't a gardener alive that can't honestly recount the many times they've killed something. Or something they planted simply didn't grow. It hurts, but that's how you learn
deadass
Innovator, practical, empathetic, smart. Just everything we need right now.
Was recommended Ron Finley's Ted talk about 2-3 years ago and it inspired me so much! I took his Masterclass shortly after and I've been growing my own kale and herbs ever since. Planning to expand my garden even more this upcoming year!
Love this TedTalk. With so much going on in 2020, this was so motivational and inspirational. Yes, I feel even more honored he is a black man thinking outside the box. I specifically enjoy this because you read so much negativity about black men from the media, online trolls, women etc that it shows me all of us see way too much of what is wrong and no where near enough of what is good and positive. I also like how he highlighted the challenges and the laws designed to keep people down instead of uplifting them. If they get caught up in the system, they become a statistic racists use to justify their line of thinking. But drilling into the numbers, how many of Mr. Finleys would we find? Now I will go buy some soil and get to planting some potatoes and herbs on my balcony.
When people start planting food, it changes their diet but also their heart...amazing...
We need more of this !!!
"If you want to meet with me, come to the garden where we can plant some shi*!"
#Gangsta
big respect to this guy
forwarding this to all friends and fam
Yesss this exactly what my generation needs! I never thought I would be so much into gardening but man am I inspired!
I can't stop listening to this talk, it is the most amazing motivational thing I have heard in a long time. This man is awesome!
A MAN AFTER MY OWN HEART! LOVE YOUR PASSION! KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK AND CHANGING LIFES!
@R Finley One of the best and most powerful speeches I have ever heard. When starting up my speakers agency I hope you become one of the speakers I represent.
Beautiful, Ron. YOU are a LEADER! Thank you for inspiring me.
Thank you Kimberly. We all can be!
Without doubt one of the greatest TED talks ever. What a great speaker
I don't get tired of watching this...
Beautiful. Brought tears to my eyes. This needs to spread to the rest of the USA.
We need more people like you !! I used to live in South Central and All I saw was untapped potential (now that I look back at it)
I love to grow food. . Even though Im in Kansas and grow potatoes and onions on my balcony, Im with you sir!
Bravo. Keep your mission going!
The BEST Ted Talk I've ever watched - Truly inspiring.
Good to see them working in the gardens again. No need to be afraid of the soil.
This is great, if we all grow our food can you imagine how much money one can save? And can we give Ron a ten for his swag, he was oozing it.
Thank you Mr. Finley! You are an inspiration to us all! Take care and be safe.
Probably one of the best TED presentations I've seen in a long time. Too many times I see some arrogant hipster type person presenting their unrealistic ideas but this, this is real. No sugar coating and inspiring. I'm planning to do some apartment gardening once it starts to warm up, it'll be like "printing my own money";]
Best 10 min 45 secs i have listened to in a long time
This so powerful, n resonates so well with my thinking since was a kid...how about the trees planted on city streets n towns they could be edible fruit trees
In the mediterranean countries fruit trees grow everywhere even next to high ways. The people there are one of the most healthy ones in the world. Can you imagine someone being arrested or even killed by police for planting food and trying to keep the neighbourhood looking proper? I'm scared that this is where the governement controlling all of us will take us to.
Amen brother
Mr. Finley is a National Treasure! Totally inspiring!
Gardening so therapeutic yes it is I eat we all eat 🙌🏿🙏🏿 Love it you produce what you eat 🥰
One of my favorite and first TedTalks I ever watched back 10 yrs ago . I'm still hoping one day that this type of vision will change LA.
"Unfuck The World"
... nice t shirt.
This should be a nationwide initiative
Love this.. This is the answer to our issues..Teach caring for gardens and health and you solve so many problems
Now ...the world will need this more than ever !
Powerful Ron Finley
Don't sell drugs....
GROW THINGS !!!
Well, that's a 20-30 minute drive for me. I think I'd like to see this man's work. He has my respect.
Just found this guy will be a permanent follower. Love at the end when he said you want to talk to me no meetings no lunches grab a shovel and come work with me. Thats what I am talking about Joined community gardening last year we are growing for food shelves. Everything about this is so right . Bring beauty and purpose to a bad neighborhood and you introduce pride and promote respect. PLANTSOMESHIT baby. Garden on Mr. Finley Garden On.
Gardening is my graffiti, I grow my art, I LOVE IT
It makes no sense that this is illegal. It would be like if giving money to homeless people on the street was illegal.
+BearWindAppleyard Tell me about it. Now some people want to make these gardens even mandatory. Change happens due to needs people have and their genius. Government isn't the answer. Government is force.
It is frowned upon tho! IN HEMET,CALIFORNIA THERE ARE SIGNS ALL OVER EVEN IN THE POLICE STATION THAT SAID DO NOT GIVE ANYTHING TO THE HOMELESS!
@@angela.6273 Is really a sad state of affair. People come with solutions for poverty but government & politicians frown upon it coz they don't make money off da people that way!
It’s crazy the stuff the city makes illegal.
I thought it was.
This made me cry!!!! This is SO beautiful! LOVE LA!
❤❤ I'm not tearing up-- YOU are! This was beautiful and powerful. Thank you so very much for this speech. My girls and I started our garden last week!
This is so beautiful- he truly is such a revolutionary❤️
Loved this so much. What an amazing man and such an incredible initiative. Respect!
I never get tired of watching this.
Every city must incorporate this for the public use. A whole block and more! put people to work this way!!
+Patricia Gayle Perkins-Christensen Even though I am in total alignment with what he does I am in no ways a fan of government incorporating such policies as a public stance. Once we allow government to do such, many potential side effects such as the possibility of excessive regulation on certain plants being grown, potential unionization of the gardeners, possibilities of corrupt policies redistributing money for such disproportionately, etc. exist. And these policies won't work for certain cities due to other dynamics involved.
Honorable, honest, self worth is needed in our society for any good policy to work.
+Patricia Gayle Perkins-Christensen Of course. I couldn't agree more. But let's begin first w/ the idea of a policy whether it's good or bad. Is it really necessary to even implement policy for many things when many of them happen to be rigid and leading to the potential for corruption? I don't want cities to incorporate these ideas for public use because the city-managed projects then would differ from how community groups manage these projects. Furthermore, there are numerous studies showing inefficiency in government spending and this would be no different w/ much waste in the projects the city would implement.
Good people run these types of gardens, they know rules & basic policies
This is why I want to become a horticulturist.
One of the most inspiring videos about creating positive change that I've seen in a long time. Thank you!
Ron Finley is awesome!
This got me. Talking to my wife tomorrow about what we can plant in our yard... to start with.
I'm ready to pick up my shovel.
I saw this some months ago, it's great!
***** I was moved by his speech. I know some people that live in urban areas and don't eat healthy because of what's available. But they can walk in any direction and easily purchase liquor.
Roderick Omari yes, his delivery was spot on, and the liquor store problem is pretty much the same where I live. Recently one even put up a huge digital display in the window with a picture of Rick Ross advertising Ciroc Vodka.
No need to ask what the demographics are where I live!
***** I remember a time when hip hop artist frowned upon such marketing.
books.google.com/books?id=7TRApef2zW4C&pg=PT161&lpg=PT161&dq=anti+liquor+hip+hop&source=bl&ots=0RJz6tRlCE&sig=Qx4FsR1PIIWkKg3oz8Nnbr1_rq8&hl=en&sa=X&ei=vKwHU_KKOpCFogSx-4LwAQ&ved=0CC8Q6AEwCA
I remember listening to night train by public enemy. Fast forward to today and selling out isn't frowned upon at all. Such a shame.
I remember the Chuck D incident, if I remember correctly Ice Cube also dissed them on Death Certificate too.
What a great talk. I love this man!
Excellent!! Never gets old. Growing your own food is like making your own money!
Bravo ! This can actually change the world “ near “ us.
Thank you!