TirithRR wrote:
I think what stops most poor people from farming their own food isn't some random council laws in local middle class areas with the "NIMBY" mentality, but instead those poor people being in densely populated areas that don't have enough open, usable land to farm.
What stops them is a combination of not having a clue how to grow a plant and not having any understanding of why it'd be beneficial to grow plants. Again, there's a lot of stuff you can container grow even in an apartment or on a fire escape or rooftop but they don't see the point in growing a sh
it ton of cherry tomatoes. Especially when you're not going to make a full meal or a consistent meal out of what you're growing. Or when you don't cook at all beyond microwaving frozen/boxed stuff. Basically, it take a fairly major change of lifestyle to make it "worth it".
How do you sell someone who has probably never eaten a cucumber in their life that wasn't in pickle-on-a-burger form on trellis growing cucumber vines?
Community urban garden projects are good because it allows people to grow more food at once and you likely have a couple people into it who can help carry the others through to harvest and have them see the benefits of it. Of course, then some idiot tries to grow pot in it or decides to trash it for kicks.