[skolor]

To put that in perspective: The daily wage for planting trees is roughly $2 US. Or that vegetables are ~$0.70 per day.

It slightly unfortunate, but I doubt it could scale to work in the US. That would come out to paying each individual ~ $30 per day (guessing that an equivelant amount of vegetables would be roughly $5 per day, not based on any hard numbers), so this project would cost some place in the range of $1 million per day, before any kind of overhead, just for paying all of the people.

[bkovitz]

Also, in the U.S., the poor wouldn't buy vegetables, they'd buy fast food.

Maybe there's a "do-gooder" entrepreneurial opportunity: show poor people how much fun vegetables can be.