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This lady is a heroine of the environment movement and deserves more recognition. If she is still alive find her and learn her wonderful ideas for growing food plants everywhere.

Pam Warhurst: How we can eat our landscapes

What should a community do with its unused land? Plant food, of course. With energy and humor, Pam Warhurst tells at the TEDSalon the story of how she and a growing team of volunteers came together to turn plots of unused land into communal vegetable gardens, and to change the narrative of food in their community.

http://www.ted.com/talks/pam_warhurst_how_we_can_eat_our_landscapes

Pam Warhurst | TED Speaker

Pam Warhurst cofounded Incredible Edible, an initiative in Todmorden, England dedicated to growing food locally by planting on unused land throughout the community.

Cofounder, Incredible Edible

http://www.ted.com/speakers/pam_warhurst

Pam Warhurst: How we can eat our landscapes.

 

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Published on Aug 9, 2012

What should a community do with its unused land? Plant food, of course. With energy and humor, Pam Warhurst tells at the TED Salon the story of how she and a growing team of volunteers came together to turn plots of unused land into communal vegetable gardens, and to change the narrative of food in their community.

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