John Winley is a gardener who is currently featured in a Youtube video prepared by Dhar Mann where the title is “Man Arrested For Gardening, What Happens Next Is Shocking.” The 18 minutes long video was circulated on Twitter as well which quickly became viral.
The whole video was made as a part of The Ron Finley Project and Johnny Mack portrayed the character of John Winley. But, why was he arrested for gardening? Read further to unlock the full story.
Who Is John Winley?
As mentioned above, John Winley is a gardener who is planting seeds in the soil. While he was busy doing his chore, two kids visit him who are eating Hershey’s and then John mocks them for eating healthy food.
Eventually, Winley tells them about planting different seeds in the garden from which he can have fresh and delicious vegetables/fruits easily and at a much cheaper rate than that of the grocery store.
Listening to him, the kids also talk about how their mom wants them to eat greens and John further tells them how he is going to plant kale, carrots, tomatoes, and other vegetables, and also about how he harvested strawberries earlier.
As John was interacting with kids, he gets a visitor named Theodore Kelly who introduces himself that he belongs to the Bureau of Street Service, City Console of Los Angeles. Just by the initial look on his face, it is known that John is not happy to see Theodore and asks a rhetorical question saying, “You did not come down here to help me grow my garden, did you?”
Theodore mentions how Winley has been planting on the sidewalk and Winley answers that he had cleaned that particular place full of weeds and then tried turning his neighbourhood well.
Theodore as a reply stated that it is against city policy that John has used the street as his personal property and warned him for doing so. After Theodore leaves, John takes the kids to a garden, grown pretty well, and the kids were shocked to see such beauty for the first time.
They eat the strawberries grown on the field, and in the meantime, John receives a few visitors thanking him for such good work as John provided all of them with free vegetables. Furthermore, those visitors (neighbours) also have been cooking for the homeless.
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Arrested For Gardening As Twitter Video Emerges
The whole video is about teaching the importance of eating healthier foods and learning to grow them, especially at such a young age.
While John did very good work, he was eventually arrested in the name of the policy. The man also raised an important question saying why don’t they lock down Mcdonald’s while it serves everyone unhealthy fast food.
The video when got circulated was praised by many and you can see several positive comments on the comment sections of Youtube. Furthermore, it is created for a good cause as The Ron Finley Projectteaches communities how to transform food deserts into food sanctuaries, and teaches others to regenerate their lands.
Everyone should watch this brilliant video and learn something, as well as, you can donate to the project by going to the link kept in the description box of the Youtube video.
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