it’s difficult to grow food in the city
but more and more people are trying to
we usually don’t get access to the big
open fields what we get are the scraps
we get the tiny side yards we get the
little scrap of lawn between the
sidewalk and the street my job is to
re-engineer those pieces of land into
edible spaces that are producing food
for the families that live around them
well that’s a good idea let’s not put
this guy in there then let’s put the
raspberries where the rosemary is most
people’s great-grandparents and probably
their grandparents have had a garden I
grew up with a garden I hear that a lot
from people they say oh you know my
grandmother had this this huge garden it
was so beautiful I want to recreate that
for my kids
Charlie but there’s a gap there where it
seems like a whole generation of people
just completely missed out on what it is
to grow your own food there is enormous
value in putting the food system in the
community as opposed to making it some
abstract thing where tomatoes come in
cellophane tomatoes come off a vine and
they can come off a vine in your
backyard and that is an extraordinarily
empowering things for people in addition
to being delicious this is about as
urban as it gets it’s very busy and very
noisy and crowded but this garden is
sort of a secret on our reef coming up
here and finding the new growth every
day it’s just is a huge surprise and it
just brings me so much joy that’s hard
to explain
a vegetable garden as has rich soil
there’s flowers there’s natives and it
fosters a healthy ecosystem the kids are
racing out the door first thing in the
morning and they’ve you know I’m not
finished all of their food I can take
those leftovers out to the hens they’re
getting a good breakfast there’s not a
whole lot of waste they get our
leftovers they lay eggs we eat the eggs
we’re all kind of having this nutrient
circle that is pretty pretty wonderful
pretty remarkable you might not be able
to feed your whole family growing in
your backyard but you can produce a
whole lot in a small little space and
the food that comes out there is going
to be more nutritious and tastier than
anything you can buy in the store
but more and more people are trying to
we usually don’t get access to the big
open fields what we get are the scraps
we get the tiny side yards we get the
little scrap of lawn between the
sidewalk and the street my job is to
re-engineer those pieces of land into
edible spaces that are producing food
for the families that live around them
well that’s a good idea let’s not put
this guy in there then let’s put the
raspberries where the rosemary is most
people’s great-grandparents and probably
their grandparents have had a garden I
grew up with a garden I hear that a lot
from people they say oh you know my
grandmother had this this huge garden it
was so beautiful I want to recreate that
for my kids
Charlie but there’s a gap there where it
seems like a whole generation of people
just completely missed out on what it is
to grow your own food there is enormous
value in putting the food system in the
community as opposed to making it some
abstract thing where tomatoes come in
cellophane tomatoes come off a vine and
they can come off a vine in your
backyard and that is an extraordinarily
empowering things for people in addition
to being delicious this is about as
urban as it gets it’s very busy and very
noisy and crowded but this garden is
sort of a secret on our reef coming up
here and finding the new growth every
day it’s just is a huge surprise and it
just brings me so much joy that’s hard
to explain
a vegetable garden as has rich soil
there’s flowers there’s natives and it
fosters a healthy ecosystem the kids are
racing out the door first thing in the
morning and they’ve you know I’m not
finished all of their food I can take
those leftovers out to the hens they’re
getting a good breakfast there’s not a
whole lot of waste they get our
leftovers they lay eggs we eat the eggs
we’re all kind of having this nutrient
circle that is pretty pretty wonderful
pretty remarkable you might not be able
to feed your whole family growing in
your backyard but you can produce a
whole lot in a small little space and
the food that comes out there is going
to be more nutritious and tastier than
anything you can buy in the store
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