Jake Gyllenhaal's Urban Gardening Lesson (VIDEO)

Actor Jake Gyllenhaal spent some time at a school, waving a shovel about a new garden and having microphones and cameras thrust toward him:

The 28-year-old actor spoke about his experience, saying, "What I learned is that something like this is possible. There are so many things that I've thought of [including making] gardens like this. I had always thought this is possible on a mass scale. This is possible within a massive city like Los Angeles!"

Gyllenhaal is apparently no stranger to environmental issues, though he sort of fumbles around in that video, saying that he wasn't aware that gardening could be perpetrated in Los Angeles. In any case, here's something from Treehugger a few years back on Gyllenhaal's environmental awareness:

"I think I was brought up pretty aware of the environment," Jake Gyllenhaal tells the BBC, and making The Day After Tomorrow made him more conscious of environmental issues. While the film may have been high on the cheese factor, director Roland Emmerich tried to make the production carbon-neutral by paying Future Forests to plant trees that would offset the movie's CO2. Gyllenhaal himself had trees planted in Mozambique, spending around $10,000.

Comments

[orangepetal]

Go Jake

[AngieMom57]

Got my garden and will have you-tube footage of before and after for all those that want to see the real instead of the surreal...

MEATLESS MONDAY LUNCH MENU

Clear Vegetable Broth
Adzuki Bean Teriyaki Burger on a bed of steamed Kale
Fried Butternut Squash

Berry Kanton

Kukicha Tea

[AngieMom57]

Thank you to our local Youth Foundation who came this morning and planted an organic 4x7 garden in my yard!

[lmvd3]

PLEASE CHECK SOIL FIRST FOR HEAVY METALS SUCH AS LEAD, before putting in a vegetable garden! Many urban areas have tons of lead from old lead paint on old demolished buildings in the area, but even suburban yards can have metals from fertilizers, etc. Lead causes brain damage in children. You might think you're doing a good thing, but you may actually poison your child.

[AngieMom57]

Thanks, will do!

[PhilipB]

Good advice!

[Babsbo]

Hey, Jake-can you talk your sister into not wearing dead animals pelts? That's an environmental issue and a compassion issue too.

[nightsdoor]

Hooray for Jake. But couldn't you find a picture of him doing this while shirtless? ;-)

[AngieMom57]

That is so0oo co0ool!

[ibsteve2u]

If you are going to do container gardening ("urban", or not), trust me when I say do a little research on "self-watering containers".

Like, go watch this video...http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZUCxBHeq04

lollll...and it isn't just the music that I liked.