What different functions can community garden plots have?
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~ Community gardens are a wonderful way to teach the basics of agricultural science and self reliance. For those who are displaced refugees, this is a marvelous way of teaching through demonstration, rather than words.
~ Community Gardens are a social activity and bring different groups of people together who share a common interest
~Self sufficiency in gardening increase self esteem and self worth.
~Community Gardens reclaim areas of the neighborhood that may have suffered from urban blight. It's a form of neighborhood beautification with a very tangible reward.
Children see things grow, The weeding and hoeing show them to care something. The mixing with other people helps with social skills splitting the food helps in teaching sharing.
Aside from teaching, they also help reduce greenhouse gasses by eliminating shipping of produce to grocery stores. They bring people together, various cultures and languages can be seen an heard at them. They make good use of properties that may otherwise become fast food joints or gas stations. or homes for that matter.
The thrill of caring for something and seeing its glory!...and if it does not thrive try and figure out how it can...gardens are not easy..one year a plant will be glorious and the next year it is just a plant.
You could grow an herb garden there and then invite children from the neighborhood to learn about them and their natural healing properties. You could hold little garden parties where you eat and drink things made only from your garden.
I've always felt community gardens should have a composter so people can recycle their kitchen waste and use it as fertilizer for the garden which would eliminate the need for chemical fertilizers.
^You answered it community, it makes for better neighbors when people get together for a common cause, and what better way then a community garden. Maybe you can all get together and give some of your produce to a homeless shelter so they can have some good healthy fresh food.
People can feel a little control over their lives in the fact that they created the food and are going to use if immediately. Food security is such a huge issue for so many that this can for a short time create less anxiousness about food insecurity.
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