Neelam Sharma: Food Not Lawns in Los Angeles

[inremembranceofruth]

Thank you for all of your inspiring ideas and work. Further, how you have informed yourself...so that you can inform others as well. Uploaded 3 years ago and, even as many more people have implemented such endeavors, there is still mostly indifference amongst our general population. Thus, I appreciate your efforts even more.

[keilana6]

I am totally for this, however I have no money to buy land and no knowledge about how to implement it in a city.

[vidaripollen]

sensible.monospecies lawns are idiotic waste.in bombay great work is being done by kavitha mukhi to promote organic farmers market.

[chevkoch]

Fantastic, fantastic, fantastic attitude.

[octohorse]

I heard gray water must be cleaned or your food could uptake toxins. And how are you testing the lawns? Many have been exposed to weedkillers, and what about poison runoff from neighbor's lawns? Please answer cheers

[ZennLa13]

@octohorse You can control what is i your soil by planting in raised garden beds :)

[EbolaV1rus]

This is a great video. My husband and I are going to turn the entire back lawn into raised beds next spring. The garden I had produced really well, but it was just too small. We are going to use a drip irrigation method.

[oatmealstoutpint]

This seems fringe today, but is going to be mainstream when oil is permanently above $150 / barrel.

Nothing tastes as good as fresh produce from your own garden.

Next we need a way to caputre "gray water" from our homes to water these gardens.

[EbolaV1rus]

Agreed. Also composting toilets would sure go a long way towards preserving what water we have left, considering that water is not a renewable resource. We are drinking the same water the dinosaurs drank.

[saltycreefer]

& we are made from the same earth as the dinosaurs. Only difference is we should be smart enough to avoid extinction.

[wildgift2]

cool! it's worse out in the suburbs. btw, vietnamese people grow food in the front yard in their hoods.

[emforty2]

especially now that they are going to raise water rates

you're better off growing some food instead of watering grass

[janetwrightreadings]

very cool!

[EffieJane1]

Awesome!!

[riversideseeds]

Keep up the good work! Having food available at schools for parents to buy is a great idea!