195) Rob Horton: Creating community gardens in food deserts to improve access to good health
Green Dreamer: Seeding change towards collective healing, sustainability, regeneration
Kaméa Chayne
4.8 • 694 Ratings
🗓️ 2 December 2019
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
Rob Horton is the founder and Executive Director of Trap Garden, a nonprofit and social enterprise that provides healthy, high-quality foods for food-insecure communities through community gardens.
In this podcast episode, Rob sheds light on how food deserts play into a larger systemic injustice for low-income communities; how we can build more community gardens to improve the access and affordability of healthy, fresh foods; and more.
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| 1:17.7 | The earlier that you get someone interested in at least trying something new, |
| 1:23.2 | as well as being a healthier option, then once they get older, they will continue those patterns and trends. |
| 1:29.7 | What we've noticed is, it's harder for an adult |
| 1:32.8 | who might have been eating fast food for the last 30, 40 years |
| 1:37.0 | to change that pattern and eat healthier |
| 1:40.2 | or be more open to try new foods if they've never tried new foods. |
| 1:46.4 | That was Rob Horton, the founder and executive director of Trap Garden, |
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