No one is under the illusion that growing beets can stop the bullets

by Jason Mark
change.org
September 07, 2010

Jason Mark is a columnist for Change.org’s Sustainable Food cause. He is a co-author of Building the Green Economy: Success Stories from the Grassroots and the editor of Earth Island Journal. When he’s not writing, he co-manages San Francisco’s Alemany Farm, a four-acre organic fruit and vegetable garden in the city.

Excerpts:

The fourth anniversary of her son Travis’ shooting had just passed, so it felt especially hard to Vivian Irving when Ray Twine was killed in front of her apartment two weeks ago. Irving, a resident of the Alemany Public Housing complex in San Francisco, was enjoying a quiet Friday night at home when someone approached Twine from behind as he was walking across the basketball court in the middle of the projects and put five bullets in the back of his head.

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