Community gardening
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Community gardening is when city planners reserve small, undeveloped spaces to be used for urban agriculture in the city’s core. Its citizens can gain more than just recreational areas, but places that socially integrate and, literally, feed the community.
A city’s community gardens can be as diverse as its communities of gardeners. Some choose to solely grow flowers, others are nurtured communally and their bounty shared, some have individual plots for personal use, while others are equipped with raised beds for disabled gardeners.
Community gardens encourage an urban community’s food security, allowing citizens to grow their own food or for others to donate what they have grown. The gardens also combat two forms of alienation that plague modern urban life, by bringing urban gardeners closer in touch with the source of their food, and by breaking down isolation by creating a social community. It has also been found that active communities experience less crime and vandalism.
(Source: Canadian Geographic)
[edit] Examples of community gardening
- Urban preservation: How greening small spaces can strengthen community roots in Ottawa, Canada.
