This chart depicts various quotations we gathered from the discussion after the film screening of CAN YOU DIG THIS by Delila Vallot. These quotations are from four individuals who spoke as a panel after the film screening. We created four classifications to dissect these quotations: opinion on the feasibility of gardening for low income individuals, local applicability of the quotation, global applicability of the quotation, and opinion on whether gardening can save the world’s problems. This enabled us to explore the topics in the quotations further, both visually and numerically.
Quote | +/- Are gardens feasible for low income individuals?
0 = neutral |
Globally Applicable?
1/0 |
Locally Applicable?
1/0 |
If gardening can solve world problems 1/0 |
We used to occupy 10 acres of land that we farmed on and produced 4 tons of food over the summer. The soil is very rich. Of course, a company is privatizing this area. | + | 0 | 1 | 0 |
There were some women from the refugee community that lived in that community who organized. There are about ten beds and space for community members to come. | + | 1 | 0 | |
Why do you want to put more space for parking when you are right next to the freeway, you know, the freeway from San Francisco to Sacramento? You want more cars? Don’t you want something different? | – | 1 | 1 | 1 |
For many years I have been working with food issues and environmental issues, connecting the two. | + | 1 | 0 | 1 |
These people haven’t been exposed to the source. They haven’t been exposed in their lifetime to food that has been growing. They are living in the city. Maybe they went to school in Berkeley, but they’ve never been to a place where food is growing, so they don’t care about it. | – | 0 | 1 | 0 |
That’s what I like to see. I mean I like gardening for self-sufficiency, but I also like the agriculture and the food industry. | + | 1 | 1 | 1 |
There’s a high demand for high quality, specialty crops. For those of you who don’t know, specialty crops are everything but the seven major commodity crops. So, lettuce is a specialty crop. Spinach is a specialty crop, for some strange reason. But, sugar beets and corn and soy and wheat are commodity crops. They’re sold on the open market, but, yet, still we’re hungry. | – | 1 | 0 | 1 |
In 2006, they had eighteen acres in South Central Los Angeles, the largest urban farm of that time. They lost it because of different reasons. If you don’t have a garden it would be good because then you can. | – | 0 | 1 | 1 |
…gentrified neighborhood right now and that garden has only been there since 2011. As a community member, I decided that I wanted to live in that neighborhood. I wanted to hold that space for black people. | + | 0 | 1 | 1 |
I was talking for about three years about food issues and environmental issues because in Spanish there are not enough people mentioned. | + | 1 | 0 | |
We were talking about the connection with soil and climate change. Now it is very trendy, everyone is talking about it. I hear Michael Pollen and other people talking about climate friendly food. That is a new concept that he has created or is coming out with… | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
I was born in Los Angeles and I didn’t grow up in LA but I spent the first 10 years of my life in LA and you know what that neighborhood, what that community can do to a person | – | 0 | 1 | 0 |
And after this program I got a group of people to start teaching different skills like management, composting, different skills so people can grow food in their back or front yards. | + | 1 | 1 | 1 |
Also be able to plant some seeds in our community and watch them grow. | + | 0 | 1 | 1 |
I started a project here with Latinos. We are promoting in liquor stores and in small Mexican markets with Latinos and in different places where they come like flea markets and things like that. | + | 1 | 1 |