Mayor Manny Diaz is like the Bill Clinton of Miami, people just like the guy. Well, maybe not everybody, but here he is at the Roots in the City urban farm in Overtown (NW Third Avenue and Ninth Street, Miami) talking collard greens with South Florida historian Marvin Dunn, who is in charge of the project.
We took the opportunity to ask Mayor Diaz what his favorite vegetable is, when the last time he had collards was, and if he would eat the ones grown in the garden. He said yes and Marvin promised to send a cooked batch over to his office.
The mayor and others were at the farm for a press conference to announce a pilot project taking waste material from local restaurants, mixing it with other bio matter, and creating compost using an in-vessel aerobic composter, a method that speeds compost production.
Here are some pictures from Overtown's Roots In The City garden and urban farm.
Jacob Katel
Mayor Diaz lookin like he's dealing with some bullshit. I turned the jar before shooting this so you could see the label.
Maggie Ponce - Volunteer Farmer.
Brinkman Young - Volunteer Farmer.
Miami going green.
Collard greens growing on NW 3rd Ave and 9th street with historic Mount Zion Baptist Church in the background.
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This is what I'm talking about video, photo, and interesting topic. This is what I love about NT!
P.S. I'm not sure who he is but Burton Dale always has something educated to say, I like that too!
If the other bio-matter is dried sewage sludge from a municipal sewage plant, please don't use it. Such sludge is usually very high in heavy metals that are toxic.
For over forty centuries Chinese farmers have used night soil collected from privies and dried it, mixed it with mud collected from canal bottoms for fertilizer and that was ok until recently.
The US and every other high tech nation is sending their old computers and unwanted electronic debris to China and Mexico for gold and copper recovery. I know Halloween is over, but if you want to scare yourself, read 'High Tech Trash,' by Elizabeth Grossman. (ISBN 1-55963-554-1)
My particular gripe is the hype to use energy saving light bulbs. Tungsten from incandescent bulbs may give less light and use more energy, but do not poison us with mercury like the new bulbs do. Science and politics are bedfellows again. That marriage is bang on out of balance.
I am all for science, but some of the pseudo Green Movement people seem hell bent to poison our planet for dollars and make Green Big Business. Leaf Man, where are you? It's time to come home and help the small green people movement.
Power down, for the good of those who come after us. Short term benefits, in my opinion, are never served by throwing away our long term benefits. Nature recycles to renew, if it relates to living systems, us. Can't we learn from the experience of those wonderful folks who lived in Biosphere2 for two years and twenty minutes?
More power to Mayor Manny Diaz who likes Collards. We Southern folks have an expression for people who have lived a long time, "He must have eaten a lot of Collards!"
Great article, Joseph!
Burton Dale
So-- did he eat the Collard Greens?
Your photos are awesome as always but I really enjoy when you post your videos! Cool post!
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