Food Activist Wants to Turn Landscaping Bed in Strip Center into a Vegetable Garden

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In San Antonio, TX, a local food activist and karate instructor is bringing his passion for fresh, healthy foods into unexpected places.

Outside the karate studio where Len Trevino teaches in a busy strip center are several scattered 8 x 10-foot landscaping beds, mostly with just one remaining dried up shrub and a thin layer of mulch. Len Trevino plans to plant landscaping beds in front of his karate studio with kale, spinach and other vegetables and wants to encourage his neighbors in this strip center to do the same.

“We’re going to start with one. We’re going to start with this one and grow spinach and kale and peppers and hopefully it will grow and some of my neighbors here will do the same thing,” Trevino said in an interview with Texas Public Radio.

Trevino is the President of the Food Policy Council of San Antonio, and hopes that by working with the City, veggie-filled gardens in nontraditional locations will begin sprouting up all over San Antonio.