A community garden refers to a place where a group of people mutually come together to grow something. The Community gardens are open to the general public and any other personnel interested in digging in the dirt and planting fruits and vegetables. The gardens have created a mutual partnership for the people, leading to sustainability in assessing, cultivating, and developing a superb network (Norton). The community garden has ensured a large and growing community partnership that is exceptionally committed to student development, nutrition, and food sustainability. The key aims of the community garden entail increasing concern and respect for the natural world, developing food sustainability, promoting healthy eating and living characters, and building an entirely dependent community. Through an emphasis on grass-roots activism and the power of immediate action, community gardens empower people to solve local needs with local solutions – with or without permission.
In her TED talk, Warhurst’s suggested the need to invent a new form of tourism known as vegetable tourism that would help solve local issues related to food security. According to Warhurst, there has been a need for a revolution for the community gardens in her homeland of Todmorden using local solutions available. For instance, Warhurst, in the TED talk, claims that “Can you find a unifying language that cuts across age and income and culture that will help people themselves find a new way of living, see spaces around them differently, think about the resources they use differently, interact differently? Can we replicate the same actions” (Warhurst 00:02:34-00:03:15)? From this argument paused, it is evident that Warhurst was much committed to inventing the community project by creating a simple game plan that later saw them solve their local challenges using locally available solutions. According to Warhurst, the unifying language that aimed at cutting across all ages and income entailed holding a public meeting in Todmorden to shift their focus into their three plates, the community plate, the learning plate, and business without permission from anyone.
Through his appeal to empower people to solve local needs with local solutions, Warhurst, in her TED talk, aims to convince his audience through reasoning and evidence. Entirely, the author has in the TED talk focused on providing evidence to the people on how they can eat their landscapes. Pam Warhurst, in the talk, has also focused on expounding her appeal to the people by providing a detailed explanation of how communities can utilize their unused land without seeking permission from anyone. According to her, communities should use their unused land to plant food that will help to feed the community (Warhurst 00:02:34-00:03:15). With humour and energy, Pam Warhurst tells at the TEDSalon a story based on how she and other growing teams of volunteers decided to come together and utilize the unused plots by planting communal vegetables that helped change the concept of food in their society.
Being a cofounded incredible edible and an initiator in Todmorden in England, Pam Warhurst makes a considerable appeal to the people by persuading them to acquire a dedication to growing food locally by utilizing unused lands in their society. The narrative presents an argument on the difference between the two levels of awareness about the community garden. In the proactive report, the first level that has been focused on is the problem-specific consciousness that entails the first group of gardeners who united to create a superb investment in the already abandoned lands in Todmorden. The second level entails adopting locally available solutions to solve their local problem of food insecurity.
On the other hand, Finley aims to persuade people of how the Guerilla Gardener helped reduce fattening, greasy, nutritious and overconsumed foods in South Central L.A through adoptions of locally available solutions to their problems. In analyzing the challenge, Finley uses various incidences of humour and pride in his scenarios. The author has created multiple pictures to illustrate the challenge that people in South Central L. A were facing among them are pictures of him feeding the homeless and children gardening. In his presentation, he appeals to the people to freely realize a solution to food insecurity by investing in the Guerilla Gardener in South Central L.A community. Finley also uses persuasive solid language for the people of South Central L.A by adopting significant statistics and logical progression of ideas of how local needs can be solved using local solutions without seeking anyone’s permission. The author has pointed out various ways that the Guerilla Garden helped reduce fattening, greasy, nutritious, and the concept of overconsumption of foods in the South Central L.A.
Finley has emphasized grass-roots activism and the power of immediate action to explain to the South Central natives of his experience with guerilla gardening. For instance, the author claims that “food is the problem and the solution” to make a severe comparison in a more understandable manner (Finley 00:04:34-00:06:00). Similarly, Finley emphasizes grass-root collectivism to create relevant persuasive thoughts in the minds of his listeners on the aspects he is explaining. For instance, Finley describes how he was tired by saying, “driving 45 minutes to buy an apple impregnated with pests (Finley 00:07:05-00:10:06)” By saying so, Finley aims at explaining to the people of South Central L.A on the powers that collectivism and immediate action can accrue them with to realize potential solutions by adopting locally available resources.
Similarly, the UWF community garden is based on an appeal for unity of purpose to realize local solutions to local needs without permission granted to natives. Being an active service garden based in the Kugelman Honors program, the project was founded after a precise analysis of growth challenges using an appeal for grass-root collectivism and the need for an immediate solution (UWF Community Garden). The foundation of the UWF Community garden has been associated with rhetoric and music, astronomy, and mathematics to persuade the public on the need for people to realize solutions to their problems. The University of Florida community garden has had a long history that can be traced back to its partnership with the Manna Food Bank. In one of the UWF College of Arts, Social Sciences, and humanity documentaries, the author has presented a clear argument on the key reason for the foundation of the UWF community garden with their future missions and visions in a persuasive manner.
Based on the emphasis on grass-roots activism and the power of immediate action, the community garden aimed at building a well-functioning community at the University of Florida and its environs. Similarly, with the garden’s establishment, there were more straightforward ways of helping students acquire community-building skills to solve local issues by utilizing the locally available solutions (UWF Kugelman Honors Program). The community garden ensured a large and growing community partnership that is incredibly committed to student development, nutrition, and food sustainability. The key aims of the community garden entail increasing concern and respect for the natural world, developing food sustainability, promoting healthy eating and living characters, and building a community at UWF by using local solutions.
Works Cited
Finley, Ron. “A Guerrilla Gardener in South Central LA.”TED: Ideas Worth Spreading, TED Talks, 2013, Web.
Norton, Jasara. “Garden Narratives: Writing Rhetorically in Public Spaces.” English Composition I, 2020, University of West Florida. Pensacola. Reading. Program, University of West Florida. Web.
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UWF Kugelman Honors Program. “UWF Community Garden.” UWF Kugelman Honors.
Warhurst, Pam. “How We Can Eat Our Landscapes.”TED: Ideas Worth Spreading, TED Talks, 2012, Web.