Maximum Yield Modern Growing | UK EU Edition | May June 2017

first feed
from the editor
Growing food in
your community
generates certainty
and with certainty,
people can let
their guards
down a little.”
Nothing brings people together like food. Be it a
wedding, a holiday, a tailgate party, or a first
date, wherever there is food there are happy, social
people. It is and has always been a key social driver
in communities. Common ground, if you will. This
isn’t the case everywhere, however. There are many
communities in modern cities where neighbourhoods
are shattered, devoid of social connections. One of
those neighbourhoods is Tel Aviv’s Neve Sha’anan
quarter, a place with a history of violence. It is also
home to many foreign workers, many of whom speak
different languages, further deepening divides.
On the toughest street in Neve Sha’anan, though,
hope is blooming. According to the Jerusalem
Post, 29-year-old entrepreneur Lavi Kushelevich
has brought together Darfurian refugees, Chinese
workers, and Israelis through his Rooftop Gardens
project. “They don’t have the same language, so
they can’t communicate,” Kushelevich told the
Post. “But they can communicate through food.”
Rooftop Gardens allows participants to grow food
hydroponically in a place where just a short time ago
growing anything seemed impossible. On Saturday
mornings, they gather, take care of the garden, and
learn new techniques. Some of the crops they grow
include cucumbers, lettuce, basil, and bok choy.
Growing food in your community, Kushelevich added,
generates certainty and with certainty, people can let
their guards down a little.
In many other cities, urban gardening is having
a similar effect. It brings our agriculture closer to
us, reduces emissions and food waste, and results
in greener, healthier cities in which to live. The
innovation seems to have no end, and, hopefully,
neither does the social connectivity it creates.
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May/June 2017
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