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So me and my group, L.A. Green Grounds, we got together and we started planting my food forest, fruit trees, you know, the whole nine, vegetables.
因此我和我的團隊，“洛杉磯綠地”，我們聚在一起開始種植自己的食物森林，果樹，還有整整九種蔬菜。
What we do, we're a pay-it-forward kind of group, where it's composed of gardeners from all walks of life, from all over the city,
我們是一個自由的組織，由來自不同行業不同城市的園丁組成，
and it's completely volunteer, and everything we do is free. And the garden, it was beautiful.
大家全都是志愿者，我們所做的一切都是義務的。花園非常的美麗。
And then somebody complained.
但是很快就有人抱怨。
The city came down on me, and basically gave me a citation saying that I had to remove my garden, which this citation was turning into a warrant.
政府指責我，給了我張告票通知我必須移除我的花園，之后告票變成了警告函。
And I'm like, "Come on, really? A warrant for planting food on a piece of land that you could care less about?"
我心想“搞什么，來真的？禁止在一小塊土地上種食物，而之前這塊土地卻沒人關心？
And I was like, "Cool. Bring it."
然后我想，“酷，就這樣吧。”
Because this time it wasn't coming up. So L.A. Times got ahold of it.
因為這次什么都沒發生。所以洛杉磯時報報道了。
Steve Lopez did a story on it and talked to the councilman, and one of the Green Grounds members,
斯蒂夫·洛佩茲寫了個關于它的故事，并和議員以及一個綠地組織的成員進行了交談，
they put up a petition on Change.org, and with 900 signatures, we were a success.
他們將請愿書上傳到了Change.org，并且收集到了900個簽名，我們成功了！
We had a victory on our hands. My councilman even called in and said how they endorse and love what we're doing.
我們用我們的雙手獲得成功。議員甚至前來拜訪，表達了他有多么贊賞和熱愛我們所做的。
I mean, come on, why wouldn't they? L.A. leads the United States in vacant lots that the city actually owns.
我的意思是，當然啦，他們怎么能不這么做呢？洛杉磯所擁有的空地的數量在美國名列前茅。
They own 26 square miles of vacant lots. That's 20 Central Parks.
它擁有26平方公里的空地。那是20個中央公園。
That's enough space to plant 725 million tomato plants.
有足夠的空間去種植七億兩千五百萬的番茄。
Why in the hell would they not okay this?
他們究竟為什么覺得這樣不好呢？
Growing one plant will give you 1,000, 10,000 seeds.
種一棵樹能夠收到一千，甚至一萬顆種子。
When one dollar's worth of green beans will give you 75 dollars' worth of produce.
一美元的綠豆可以為你帶來75美元的收成。
It's my gospel, when I'm telling people, grow your own food. Growing your own food is like printing your own money. Alright? Thank you.
這是我的信條，我告訴人們，種植你們自己的食物吧。自己種食物就好像自己印錢似的。好嗎？謝謝你！
