This year was a big draught here, more than 100 days without rain. Due to this, people cannot use automatic watering systems. I have never seen so many vegetable gardens in a city.
This garden is on a boulevard downtown.
Julian comes from Belgium: he works in financial investment. As Mark Faber says, the future is agriculture, so Julian takes it seriously. He closes a trading position (tomatoes) before it is fully reaped, so people do not steal it.
In residential areas, people grew vegetables even in the space between the street and sidewalk.
I remember a Communist saying of my childhood: lets make our city a garden !