Ron Finley is a Los Angeles-based fashion designer to professional athletes,[1][page needed][2][3] collector of original blaxploitation posters,[4][5] and proponent of urban gardening.
[12] The “Residential Parkway Landscaping Guidelines” were changed to end fines for vegetable gardens within the strip owned by the city.
[13] In early 2013, Finley gave a TED talk on his progress as a "guerrilla gardener," the dangers of food deserts, and the potential for his program to improve quality of life.
"[8] The talk has received over three million views on the TED web site,[9] and attracted attention from numerous celebrities and collaboration proposals from corporations.
Amidst the coronavirus pandemic, his class for home growing food was “one of the most popular” according to David Schrieber, chief marketing officer for Masterclass.
Ron Finley created initially started gardening to decrease the effects of the food apartheid in which his own neighborhood existed, encourage healthy eating habits, and beautify the land.