Gardens Have Pulled America Out of Some of Its Darkest Times.
Mother Jones, May 29,2020
Urban Tilth’s Executive Director was interviewed by Mother Jones magazine and included in the May 29, 2020 article Gardens Have Pulled America Out of Some of Its Darkest Times. We Need Another Revival. by Tom Philpott sections of the interview was also included in Mother Jone’s Bite podcast series.
“Quarantine has prompted a burst of gardening activity around the country; some people have even likened it to the 1940s Victory Garden movement. In a third-floor apartment in Queens, two roommates have figured out how to grow a whole host of vegetables without a backyard. Then we talk to Doria Robinson, Executive Director of Urban Tilth in Richmond, California, to try and understand what it will take to make disaster gardens last beyond times of crisis.”
Listen to the discussion of the disaster gardens, Victory gardens, history of Richmond and Urban Tilth, and how the CSA Farm to Table has rapidly transformed in a few months since the Covid-19 Crisis has happened.
“Quarantine has prompted a burst of gardening activity around the country; some people have even likened it to the 1940s Victory Garden movement. In a third-floor apartment in Queens, two roommates have figured out how to grow a whole host of vegetables without a backyard. Then we talk to Doria Robinson, executive director of Urban Tilth in Richmond, California, to try and understand what it will take to make disaster gardens last beyond times of crisis.”