[Scpg] Mary Clear from Incredible Edible Todmoren, a small town in Yorkshire/YOU TUBE

[Wesley Roe and Santa Barbara Permaculture Network]

This is a fantastic, funny, inspiring talk given by Mary Clear from 
Incredible Edible Todmoren, a small town in Yorkshire whose people 
decided they were worried about climate change, food security in Africa 
and their children's future.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yUUJsb4V5aU&feature=player_embedded

Mary and her friends, sitting in a kitchen with no money, asked 
themselves, "What can we do to create a kinder world?"  They decided to 
make their 'community stronger, educate their children in a different 
way, create jobs and have fun'. They got together their neighbours, 
local doctors, firemen, teachers, school children, even the police, and 
have turned their town into an edible landscape where the produce is 
freely available to anyone who wants it.

These are ordinary people, not rich, or famous or influential, just 
ordinary... They practise the art of 'propaganda gardening', planting up 
every available public space in their town, and from their efforts have 
sprung businesses, social enterprises, school gardens, a permaculture 
training centre, even 'vegetable tourism'! Their work has envigorated 
the town's economy and made them famous. Communities throughout the 
world have taken Todmorden's model and replicated it.

No one gave them permission. When asked what Mary's one word of advice 
was Mary said: "Just do it! The prisons in England are full. I checked. 
The prisons in Poland are full too. I checked. Just do it."

Filmed at the 2012 Cohabitat Gathering.