If they have farms in the city, will the feral reidents raid the farm? Will they ... uhh ... "pollute" the fields?
Yes they will.
So, the urban farm idea just isn't going to work. The key thing though, is that the effort to "start" urban farms may allow a lot of city money to flow toward certain individuals for political gain.
This is not about economics. This is not about food. This is about machine politics.
Exactly. Excellent points.
and, gardening is not all that simple, it’s complex. And people who can get junk food with their food stamps are not going to bother.
Dependency is a kind of mental foot-binding, and once a person has been raised as a dependant and not asked to become an adult, they can’t recover after about age eighteen or so. They are stuck in that mode and have terrible difficulty getting out of it.
they are sort of non-adults for the rest of their lives and a burden and a trouble to society. the shift back and forth between rages and begging.
they are NOT going to garden.
surely Rahm knows this.
Havana's Popular Gardens: Sustainable Urban Agriculture
Gardens Renew Cuba’s Urban Core
Feeding Ourselves: Organic Urban Gardens in Caracas, Venezuela
What do all these stories have in common...real food shortages. Not just Michele's food desert, but very real food shortages. It causes me to ponder if this effort by Michele is actually some what of a warning of things to come. And of course the UN Agenda...
Now I am actually not totally against this kind of thing, but why haven't the people themselves initiated it and why does it need government subsidy to make it happen. The only thing needed was a waiver to use the lot.