Answer 2

Ron Finely, a South Central Los Angeles Urban Farmer who has constructed street-neighboring community gardens that benefit the palates of neighbors and passing city folk alike - eco-activism with a focus on conscious culinary opportunity 

1.  What is your EQ?

- How can urban farming redefine the way a community obtains and consumes food?

2.  What is your first answer? (In complete thesis statement format)

- Building soil through biologically in-tune, personal relationships with urban farms (small-scale farming) allows for investment in the idea that carbon can be trapped through long-term prison sentences.  To this end, more robust produce and organismal activity are upheld and made ecologically conscious products of the practice/idea (sum of ecological benefits).

3.  What is your second answer? (In complete thesis statement format)

- Making food more accessible to citizens of a city through nearby, neighborhood community gardens, centers of urban farming methodology, offers healthier eating options and a front against an increasingly convenient ‘fast food’ and ‘corporative food’ culture.  Urban farming teaches the public about food and where food comes from, giving more accessible responsibility to stay healthy to the average citizen - who becomes him/herself a food ambassador (sum of social benefits).

4.  List three reasons your answer is true with a real-world application for each.

first answer depth:

1. healthier soil equates to prolonged food security
2. prevention/treatment plan for addressing climate change consequences
3. healthier soil equates to the preservation of pristine ecosystems and nutrient-rich food ripe as it was intended to be by Nature

second answer depth:

1. abolishment of community crippling ‘food deserts’
2. proper schooling of future generations in regards to learned life skills with gardening as a model
3. renewed philosophy of meaning behind the idea of self-sourcing one’s own food

5.  What printed source best supports your answer?

- “Grass, Soil, Hope” by Courtney White

White, Courtney. Grass, Soil, Hope. White River Junction: Chelsea Green Publishing, 2014. Print.

6.  What other source supports your answer?

- http://www.ted.com/talks/jamie_oliver#t-922888

- http://www.ted.com/talks/ron_finley_a_guerilla_gardener_in_south_central_la

- Interview three with Cathy Morrison (Pasadena Community Gardens)

7.  Tie this together with a concluding thought.

- Farming, and the included techniques and philosophy, can be brought into the city environment so that society becomes more conscious of how food is produced and how seeking an outlet in having a part in the production of food can help modify the techniques and philosophy included to adapt to a more sustainable society.  In this way, traditions bent on using pesticides and synthetic chemicals to ban pests can be replaced with more holistic approaches that don’t undermine quality for the sake of profits.  In this way, life can mend life to meet our demands, and a changing philosophy bent of reconnecting to food can rejuvenate motives driven to sustain community building and disciplined eating practices - such that sustainability can be made sustainable itself.

Basis of second answer summing the social justice provided by urban farming...