{"id":115923,"date":"2020-04-28T21:00:39","date_gmt":"2020-04-28T14:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/this-is-no-damn-hobby-the-gangsta-gardener-transforming-los-angeles\/"},"modified":"2020-04-28T22:03:53","modified_gmt":"2020-04-28T15:03:53","slug":"this-is-no-damn-hobby-the-gangsta-gardener-transforming-los-angeles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/this-is-no-damn-hobby-the-gangsta-gardener-transforming-los-angeles\/","title":{"rendered":"'This is no damn hobby': the 'gangsta gardener' transforming Los Angeles"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nLockdown is an unlikely ally for Ron Finley, who has set about revolutionising attitudes to gardening in inner city areas Read more stories from our wild cities week\u201cThe garden seduces me,\u201d says Ron Finley, who is known around the world as the \u201cgangsta gardener\u201d. \u201cI\u2019ll get out there at 9am and next thing I know it\u2019s 7pm \u2026 gardening takes your mind off things. Everybody should have a garden to cultivate.\u201d English horticulturalists fiddling with well-maintained roses might know the feeling. But for Finley, gardening isn\u2019t about producing the perfect floral pom-pom, it\u2019s about growing people. Planting is his unusual form of protest, and having a garden stuffed full of beautiful plants and vegetables is a byproduct of that. Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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