You really don’t understand how growing crops works, do you? You can’t just put a little pile of clean dirt on top of a spot in a toxic neighborhood (check out the myriad toxins in the ground, water, and air on the south side of Chicago, for example) and expect to be able to grow healthy food.
And will that food, whatever its condition, actually be there when you’re ready to harvest? Oh, you mean while you were off at one of your minimum wage jobs someone stole your produce? Or maybe it was rats? Too bad, so sad.
And even if you manage to harvest any food, so what? It’s fine if you just want to be able to have some vine ripened tomatoes or heirloom varieties of lettuce, but can you actually feed even one person from the single or at most double harvest before fall hits? Do you have any idea what it was like to eat in the middle of winter in the Midwest 100 years ago? Or heck, even 50 years ago? A patch of land in an urban environment is not enough to feed a family, let alone a neighborhood.
Poor people are not lazy…they’re just not idealistic dreamers who don’t have to worry if plans don’t work out perfectly.
