# A guerrilla gardener in South Central LA | Ron Finley

An episode of [TED Talks Daily](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/160904630), 15 Aug 2026, 13 min.

Audio: https://sphinx.acast.com/p/open/s/67587e77c705e441797aff96/e/6a7b9bced6c287f9ee9bc5c4/media.mp3

Ron Finley plants vegetable gardens in South Central LA -- in abandoned lots, traffic medians, along the curbs. Why? For fun, for defiance, for beauty and to offer some alternative to fast food in a community where "the drive-thrus are killing more people than the drive-bys." Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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