Parking space allotted at Miracle Meat Market (park at South end near Raymond Street). It's a 2-block walk to Moonwater Farm. Safety first, y'all - please cross the street at the light!
TRANSPORTATION:
Carpooling and public transportation and are highly recommended! Save mother earth a trip.
The closest station is Compton (Blue Line).
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."
Affectionately known as the Gangster Gardener, Ron Finley changes lives with his passion for urban farming, a task he took on when one day he realized fast-food and low-quality processed foods were killing his community, South Central Los Angeles, inflicting far more damage than drugs and crime.
"The drive-thrus are killing more people than the drive-bys. I live in a food prison.. It’s all by design just like prisons are by design. I just got tired of being an inmate. So I figured, let me change this paradigm, let me grown my own food. This is one thing I can do to escape this predestined life that I have unwillingly subscribed to."
– Ron Finley
His efforts have inspired and brought forth a new generation of gardeners, something the world needs now more than ever before as biodiversity in food seed is collapsing and companies like Monsanto and other agrochemical giants are poisoning the earth and monopolizing the global farming industry.
Ron envisions a world where gardening is gangsta, where cool kids know their nutrition and where communities embrace the act of growing, knowing and sharing the best of the earth’s fresh-grown food.
Moonwater Farm is an urban microfarm in Compton, CA providing access for youth and residents of South Los Angeles to organic farming, livestock raising and healthy food preparation and preservation. We are interested in re-establishing connections to homesteading history and developing opportunities for learning, training and potentially employment in the food systems of Los Angeles.
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