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Meet Max and Grant Buster. They are teenage brothers in Colorado who started Global Buckets. They don't have degrees in agriculture or horticulture but they have something just as good and that is open minds, knowledge and enthusiasm from their own personal experience.
We could use ten thousand more just like them to help Michelle Obama fight obesity, and eliminate so-called food deserts in the city. They are "movers" and I hope they continue in the field of urban agriculture. The country needs them.
They quote Mother Teresa at the end of the video. If you can't feed a hundred people, just feed one. The quote is a perfect way to say what I have struggled to communicate.
Sub-irrigated planters (SIPs) are unitized and personal. Anyone with sun availability can grow at least some food, even if it's in only one SIP to start.
What if everyone in every city in America had access to just one SIP? Think of the fresh produce we would have. It would cost very little in money. What is needed is education, which at this time is scarcer than money because our institutions are mute.
I suggest starting with yourself as the "one", even if it's just one SIP. This way you will learn about SIPs, how productive and easy they are to use. Then teach your child, grandchild, niece, nephew or neighbors kid. You get the idea.
We need to find a way to recruit, motivate and lead more young people like Max and Buster. Tweet them my friends. They deserve both trumpets and tweets.
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