Ron Finley, the gardener who transforms wasteland in Los Angeles into urban gardens

RECOVERY OF UNCULTIVATED LAND

After acquiring one of the many cultivation soils abandoned Los Angeles, he transformed it into a Urban garden in which he began to cultivate tomatoes and then notified the municipal administration. The protagonist of the story is Ron Finley, brave gardener which brought public attention to the importance of urban gardens, demonstrating, among other things, that in the uncultivated areas of Los Angeles alone it is possible to plant as many as 725 million tomato plants.

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RON FINLEY LOS ANGELES

Ron brought his experience to the TED conferences, thus becoming the global symbol of the battle for urban gardens. We're talking about gardens that allow you to produce fruit, vegetables and which, through lessons organized in schools, introduce the little ones to the culture of land use.

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