Let the Spring Planting Begin!

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Category: Community News
Published on Friday, 18 April 2014 15:34
Written by D.V. Lawrence
We are a little late in reporting this but just in case you didn't know, last August 2013, City Hall unanimously passed a motion introduced by Council President Herb Wesson, allowing Los Angeles residents to grow vegetables on the city owned grassy area between the sidewalk and the curb. Aprilronweb

Inspired by gardener and activist Ron “You ain’t gangsta till you have a garden” Finley’s crusade to allow for planting in areas of the city where healthy food options were minimal and diabetes rampant, Council President Wesson worked with the city’s Engineering and Street Services bureaus, along with the Bureau of Public Works, to amend the “Residential Parkway Guidelines,” allowing for the creation of vegetable gardens on public property.

Supporters hope to see the idea catch on with street gardens popping up all over Los Angeles. 

“Gardening is the most therapeutic and defiant act you can do," Finley said. "Plus you get strawberries.”