What Are The Pluses And Minuses Of Community Gardens

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.

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.

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.

Tree groves have been planted, rain gardens have been created, and gardens are tended on a regular basis. These are just a few of the many conservation innovations conducted at Chesapeake Ecology Center. The massive amount of participation is done completely on a volunteer basis. Multiple groups of people give their time then disperse their knowledge into their own communities in order to increase neighborhood expertise that can help protect environments across the state. CEC has been recognized as a top notch garden facility oven the last ten years (CEC. 2017).

Politicians need to be more open to allowing vacant lots to be turned into gardens that can be used by the community.

I was strolling down Gibson Street on a cloudy day when I noticed a sign that said, “Community Garden Open For All”. It was gated off by a fence and I peeked through a little open crack and saw so many plants and people! I was amazed on how many people came together to grow plants.

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

Often it is that this process of public involvement is tiresome but more than often it is an essential part of the development of open spaces and green areas. Parks support community engagement by providing residents with a venue for participation in and

I did not think that this project would amount to much, it was a struggle, and took more effort than everyone expected. We knew that it would be difficult to get the basics planned, to get donations, and to finalize details but I did not think it would be that difficult every step of the way. Going to class most of the semester made me anxious because I knew that it would end in heated arguments and people leaving upset and not much progress. I do not handle conflict well; it stresses me out and when everyone begins fighting it leads to me feeling helpless. After this class and this project, I have learned to handle this stress better and that even though I am a quiet person I can still have a say in how things are handled.

Other project partners include Friends of Florida State Parks; the Seminole County Master Gardener Program with University of Florida, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences; occupational therapist and award winning author Dr. Amy Wagenfeld; award-winning landscape architecture firm Dix. Hite + Partners; the engineering firm of Carnahan Proctor and Cross; and Sweetwater Oaks Gardening Club.

About 16.7 million children lived in households classified as food insecure in 2011 (Federal Interagency Forum on Child and Family Statistics 2013). Food insecurity is limited or uncertain availability of nutritionally adequate and safe foods or limited or uncertain ability to acquire acceptable foods in socially acceptable ways (Coleman-Jensen, A. & Nord, M., 2013). There is a way for the United States to help these families in need besides just giving them financial assistance; they could create a program focused on educating families on a healthier lifestyle and helping them start a self-sufficiency garden or implementing a community garden program.

When discussing community in the context of our class I find it hard to keep the balance of optimism and idealism. Seeing these examples of community helped me to view community in a physical and realistic way. Pat Nagel form Oakland, California who participated in Lillie Lucket’s Garden said, “And I came to understand that the very specific boundaries we set up were a kind of protection: trust doesn’t just happen in an instant. It’s organic, it unfolds. And so some boundaries are needed – and really, it’s quite fine. The experience in the garden has been magical, beyond our wildest dreams.” This quote can be seen both through the lens of the specific community garden and community as a whole. It’s sometimes easy to get lost in ideas and ideals while in a classroom. Reclaiming Community does a good job of presenting real life examples of slow growing communities that didn’t give up because of bureaucracy or

This section will elaborate on the field research performed in the Old Northeast Community Garden for this study, discuss an informal interview with an Old Northeast Community Garden participant, and ultimately answer the thesis question presented in this paper. Because this project is based on qualitative research methods, this section will utilize first person narrative form. According to Marcia et al (2011), “Ultimately the goal of using composite first person narrative is to express the insights gleaned through qualitative research in a way that is accessible to others; in a way that will add to the knowledge of a certain phenomenon” (para. 50). The overall objective of this section is to provide ample evidence to properly analyze how participating in an urban community garden, specifically the Old Northeast Community Garden, influences views on gardening and perceptions

A grant from the Captain Planet Foundation helped students from The Drop-In Learning Center plan and plant a Peace Garden, using native and butterfly-friendly plants. The garden was planted in Riverside Park in New London, CT, an 18-acre park located in a neighborhood with a high percentage of residents living in multi-family housing, with limited yards.

In the back of my high school, there was a dirt plot, fenced in, covered in weeds, and it was going to concreted over. I walked past the dirt plot and wondered “Why doesn’t anyone do something with it?” I thought about it on the way home from school and I talked to my friends about it. I told them that I wanted to do something with space, we came up with many things to do with the space before but then I realized that we could use the space for a garden. I remembered that I love gardening, when I was young my mom and I would always garden together, we would have the best time harvesting our plants and we bonded so much over our garden.