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15 minutes
[ Culture ]
Growing a Revolution: How Community Gardens are Changing Your Neighborhood!
By Sam Burns
To leave a legacy that helps the world, you need only go as far as your local empty lot! By bringing gardens back to the empty spaces in NYC’s neighborhoods, Hattie Carthan and Liz Christy started a movement that brought life to formerly desolate spaces, and their work is still flourishing all around the city’s residents today.
25 minutes
[ Thought Leaders ]
How to Grow Your Own Bowls, Lamps, and Baskets!
By Sam Burns
Can we seriously grow everything we need in our backyard? To explore this question, on this edition of Saturday’s Around the World we’re traveling to an enchanting land to meet a woman who can transform plants into almost any object you desire!
11 minutes
[ Innovation ]
Can You Fit a 2-Acre Garden in a Shipping Container?
By Sam Burns
How do we increase access to fresh, nutritious foods in places lacking the land to grow it? Square Roots may be bringing us towards the solution by growing the equivalent of a 2-acre garden inside a shipping container!
7 minutes
[ Thought Leaders ]
This Garden In a Pool Helps Put an End to Food Scarcity
By Sam Burns
What if an unused pool could be our blueprint to a more abundant future? It turns out that if we’re a little creative, we can breathe new life into almost anything and build everything we need in fascinating close-looped systems! Here’s one great example of a movement to revitalize our human ingenuity!
16 minutes
[ Saturdays Around the World ]
Fly Through London with Some Urban Bees
Explore London from the fun and fascinating perspective of some of its smallest and most industrious inhabitants, the bees! They may not seem like the perfect urbanites but they have found some remarkable ways to adapt to life in the big city.
8 minutes
Did You Know We Can Garden in Space?
By Sam Burns
Lettuce, zinnias, peas, and radishes are just some of the plants that have found their roots in space. But what does this mean for our future?
15 minutes
[ Conservation & Sustainability ]
Guerrilla Gardener Takes on South Central LA
By Dr. Lynda
Meet Ron Finley; an amazing fellow who’s come up with a better idea than battling over turf. How about using “turf” in a very old way! Take a look!
