Community Garden Benefits

In the book Seedfolks, a character named Kim travels to vacant lot in her town, Cleveland Ohio, to plant Lima Beans to honor her father, who passed away before Kim was even born. While Kim is in the process of planting her beans and watering them daily, people around the vacant lot being to notice her actions . Many people follow what Kim is doing and make there own little garden, which causes the community of Cleveland to be together and to communicate to one another. Throughout the book many character come and go to the garden, and each character shares something in common with someone else apart of this Community Garden. The novel Seedfolks shows that the garden has change everyone’s perspectives on things, and made them feel apart of something they might have never been apart of before. Some people that are involved are KIm, Ana, Sae Young, Maricela, and Curtis.

Gardening is the activity of planting, cultivating and tending (Oxford dictionary 2015). The origins of gardening, and its fulfilment of a human need, date back to 1500bc where archaeologists discovered ancient paintings of opulent gardens by the Egyptians (Cellauro 2015). Recognition of the benefits of gardening as a therapeutic tool in occupational therapy date back to Hartwell (1933). It provides opportunities for social inclusion which is a central component in well-being (Grabbe et al 2013).

The two boys showed they were confidant and knowledgeable about gardening, for example they knew how to use a rake to mulch the garden and how to care for the plants (Elliott, 2014). As a future educator this example can be facilitated into a lesson by developing children’s knowledge on the environment, weather, and season pattern changes that cause the leaves to die and fall off trees (ACARA, 2015). Additionally, children also learn about composting and how these leaves provide essential nutrients to the soil for plants to grow and provide shelter and cover for animals and living things (ACARA, 2015). Children can also develop their science inquiry skills by questioning and predicting various trees and leaves and identify and analyse similarities and differences in the leaves by also using their senses to explore. Most importantly, by engaging children in the process of gardening, they begin to show respect for the environment and understand the importance of maintaining

In this essay, I will be taking on the role of the head administrator, of the Northumberland Community Garden. I will be writing a proposal letter to the American Community Gardens Association, to try and receive funding for the Northumberland Community Gardens. In this letter, I will give a basic outline of the program development stages, evaluation process, and financial aspects of my organization. I will also include other information that would be considered relevant to understanding my purpose for creating this program.

Texas Women’s Empowerment Foundation is creating an urban garden that would use the joy of gardening to provide intergenerational and cross-cultural connections within a food desert with access to fresh fruits and vegetables and weekly physical activities using the joy of gardening. The program will promote positive behavioral changes that include better nutrition and increase physical activity among participants while teach entrepreneurship skills to the youth through the farmers’ market. In addition, the garden and market would be used to teach youth and low-income families gardening and entrepreneurial skills while also providing the low-income community to be served with regular access to fresh fruit and vegetables. TWEF will also provide

Tell people who don't like gardening but want a garden how to plant a low maintenance one.To where they dont have to take care of it at all.

My thesis is as follows: How does participating in an urban community garden influence views on gardening and perceptions of nature?

Commercialization of food industry makes situation worse ever and diminish the outport farming. The social value system to supplementary farming was drastically affected and reduced since late nineties. Though few nonprofit and voluntary initiatives are always trying to develop the food system to bring food sovereignty, but their initiatives merely became a continuous process due to lack of volunteers, good partnerships and collaborations, inadequate financing and lack of institutional education. In this situation community garden as an emerging initiative can facilitate food sovereignty in small scale and can be a great tool to create a social movement towards food sovereignty. In order to do so, community garden initiators need policy and financial supports as well as innovative in communication and

Crane, A., Viswanathan, L., & Whitelaw, G. (2013). Sustainability through intervention: a case study of guerrilla gardening in Kingston, Ontario. Local Environment, 18(1),

The gardening approach is quite an inspirational leadership concept that has remained in practice for quite a long time; nonetheless, numerous managers seem to ignore, or they cannot even comprehend what it is all about. According to Susan Shapiro, a great gardener soon realizes that since it cannot fully control all aspects of its garden, the gardener best action plan is to institute a propitious growing environment. Certainly, a great gardener carefully selects and plant diverse, robust, and healthy plants that can harmoniously coexist. The gardener must work with devotion in order to maintain a healthy soil and exceptional conditions for a fruitful environment. Undoubtedly, the gardener must remain vigilant and with dedication must observe the garden development and mentally prepare to quickly adjust to environmental changes, eliminate weeds from taking over the healthy planting, prevent insects from damaging its garden, watering and fertilizing as needed, and continue its commitment to the garden with no illusion of control over each of the plants.

The countryside parks can allow people to visit the natural environment and provide a platform for people to enjoy the nature. Moreover, the improvement of soil can let some farmers to use more farmlands to grow different kinds of crops, fruits and vegetables. The more available farmlands can lower the cost that farmers need to spend and thus the price of the fruits and vegetables can be lower. At the same time, the amount of food grown can be increased. Some people who enjoy the farm lifestyle can also have more places choose to live and grow whatever they

The site that I am utilizing for my Capstone is The Hill Family Farm which I am the owner and operator. We are, located at 9002 Speights Chapel Road in Whitakers, NC 27891. The Hill Family Farm is an Agri-Tourism, with a large variety of exotic animals including Peruvians Alpacas, Mediterranean

The position of our department in relation to the proposal of improving a community garden requires research in order to proceed. Without research, this organization will not be able to progress. Overall, all department heads take part in this project because this project depends on different aspects. Those aspects take place in this proposal by coming together as a community to make a difference in relation to environmental issues. Furthermore, it has come to the attention of many, that students are not involved in their community in regards to making a difference when they can be. Therefore, this organization is accessible to the public in order for them to make that difference.

Gardens will also stimulate the health of homeowners, and would give the economy a much needed and healthy boost.

Results demonstrated many individuals knew about the existing garden and its location (66.3% of students and 66.7% of families). (See table and figures 4). In order to assess our task group goal, raising awareness of the garden, one question explored various ideas participants may have about promoting the garden club. Most students recommended the use of social media (42.7%), followed by suggestions of utilizing the morning news program (33.3%), and finally the least amount of students proposed fundraising as a way to generate interest (21.9%). (See table and figures 5). In comparison, families held equal interest in similar methods of promoting recognition of the garden club. Suggestions from the family survey included; increasing the use of social media (33.3%), organizing various fundraising events or activities (33.3%), and advertising through posters, flyers, and newsletters (33.3%). (See table and figures 5). These proposals were valued and taken into consideration as it was provided by two important stakeholder