This event is part of the Book-to-Action Series: The Future of Food

​Can You Dig This explores the urban gardening revolution currently taking place in South Central Los Angeles, one of the largest food deserts in the country.  People are planting to transform their neighborhoods and are changing their own lives in the process. Calling for people to put down their guns and pick up their shovels, these "gangster gardeners" are creating an oasis in the middle of one of the most notoriously dangerous places in America.

From executive producer, John Legend, Can You Dig This follows the inspirational journeys of five 'gangster gardeners', who discover what happens when they put their hands in the soil and plant seeds for a better life.  This is a story of the human spirit, inspiring people everywhere to pick up their shovels and #plantsomeshit.​

"Growing your own food is like printing your own money.

 Ron Finley, Guerrila Gardener & co-founder of LAGREENGROUNDS.ORG, a company that plants gardens at low-income homes in the Los Angeles area as a part of a recovery system to transform neighborhoods.
 
Hayward City Hall
777 B Street
Hayward, CA 94541