Homeless Garden
Food Chain Radio Show #1166
Michael Olson, Author & Urban Farming Agriculturalist
The Homeless Garden Project
Guest: Anthony Reyes, Farm Manager, Homeless Garden Project
We are coming to you today from a city that hosts a large number of people who seem to be in need of help. We also have in this city, a large number of people who want to help, and who have devised many different ways of helping. Some of those ways seem to help, while others seem to facilitate more needing.
Michael Olson Food Chain Radio – The Homeless Garden Project – Can those in need be taught to farm their way out of need?
One of the best ways to help those in need is to help them help themselves, as embedded in the folk saying, “Give them a fish, and they will eat today, teach them to fish, and they will eat always!”
Though our little city happens to be situated right next to one of the most fecund bodies of water in the world, our fisherman have caught most of the fish. Those fish that are left are tightly guarded by rules, regulations and people with badges. So, may as well forget teaching those in need how to fish.
But we also have in our little city a patch of land upon which sits… The Homeless Garden Project. Wow! Three very loaded words…
Homeless… Without a secure place for one to rest. Garden… A piece of earth where one may grow with nature. Project… A task with an objective.
Our little city’s Homeless Garden Project leads us to ask…
Leave a comment below: Can those in need be taught to farm their way out of need?
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