Building Community One Garden at a Time | Zoe Hansen-DiBello | TEDxNewBedford

Zoe Hansen-DiBello shares the stories of connection and community in her work with public schools and community gardens; growing food and community simultaneously.
Zoe Hansen-DiBello is the Program Manager and visionary of Grow Education, a program of the Marion Institute working to increase healthy food access by creating community gardens located throughout New Bedford's public schools. Zoe is passionate about maintaining and strengthening cultural capital, the commons and healthy food access. Zoe is a graduate of Leadership SouthCoast and has served as a "Big Sister" for the past 4 years. Zoe holds a BA from the University of Connecticut and is currently pursuing a PhD in Educational Leadership at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth.
This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at ted.com/tedx

[@Kangaruworld1]

Message to all. I see lots of people talking about community gardens for general hospitals to help with mental health. But what about having some community gardens for mental health hospitals. Mental health facilities patients could greatly benefit from having a garden at their facilities as well. And it would give them more fun and healthy extracurricular activities instead of just blank colorless walls, tv, music and books. If we are talking about creating community gardens to benefit mental health, then Mental health institutes should definitely be included in the quest for health and healing. They should not be abandoned. Plants for everyone, everywhere!! Anyone out there ready for this challenge?

[@kellyl8994]

That would be awesome !🌱

[@shannonhathaway4293]

Excellent. The questions of fencing was handled so beautifully.

[@prisillaspace]

Many underserved/unseen/underprivileged people are overworked and need multiple jobs to make ends meet, it's not they don't want to be involved, it's that they can't. There are so many opportunities out there, but the ones that can & should take the initiative, don't. Or when we call for support from the agencies built for these types of programs and our emails are left ignored. I am trying again to build a community through a garden in the hopes we can spread throughout our rural communities.

[@amayatheperson1074]

Love love love 💕🌱

[@rrl7707]

This speech is deep and beautiful.

[@karenrussell7143]

Very thought out. Thank you.

[@otcdman]

proud of you

[@happymama2793]

Can you add the links to her socials? 🙏

[@cyrusguest4975]

How many of you are scrolling through the comments looking for answers to a worksheet connected to this ted talk

[@ArnoldOnPC]

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[@PaintedSodaHD]

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[@Scrufflord]

very insightful.

[@Scrufflord]

Not putting a fence around the garden was a bad idea. What if a rabbit decides to eat it all and tarnish the (figuratively and literally) fruits of their effort?

[@figgefication]

this