When most people think of South Central Los Angeles, they think of gangs, drugs, drive-by shootings, and riots. I know those thoughts traveled through my mind as I got off the bus at 41st and Compton Ave., on my way to visit the South Central Farmers. Although I was not the most relaxed or comfortable walking the two blocks to the farm, I felt 100% safe once within its confines; a place that Tom Morello guitarist of rock band Audioslave and founder of Axis of Justice called an “embodiment of the American Dream;” What Mike Farrell, actor turned activist called an “oasis of life.” By now you may be asking what Tom Morello, Mike Farrell, a farm, and I were doing in the middle of South Central Los Angeles. Click here to read my article in Car Free LA.