Category: Urban Food Systems

  • Poverty Requires a Systemic Solution

    Poverty is a System Merriam Webster roughly defines a system as a regularly interacting or interdependent group of items forming a unified whole.  Examples may include a group of interacting bodies under the influence of related forces such as a gravitational system.  Another example is an assemblage of substances that is in, or tends to…

  • Why Urban Agriculture in a Community with High Poverty?

    Why Urban Agriculture A few months ago, I watched a Simon Sinek Ted Talk about “Why?” ( Why?).  His argument is that great change leaders start with answering the question of “Why?”  His argument “why is what motivates change.”  And that made me think: How do we solve poverty issues in Tulsa?  Why urban agriculture?   …