“‘My sense is people fund locally; a lot of people fund those things they can touch and feel,’ said Impact Justice founder and President Alex Busansky.”
“Impact Justice’s Busansky said he has seen a big difference in terms of how much harder it can be to implement programs in even the most progressive states. Using the nonprofit’s Growing Justice program as an example, Busansky said that, after three years of attempting to implement a program to install a shipping container vertical farm in a women’s prison in California, ‘I don’t have that much hair, so I don’t want to pull it out. But if I did, I’d pull it all out.’ By comparison, launching the same program in South Carolina has been ‘like a walk in the park compared to what we have to go through in California, and it’s nonsensical half the time. I’m just trying to put a shipping container in a prison to grow lettuce.'”
