Community Gardens

Community Gardens provide an excellent vehicle for promoting local food production, community interaction, and sustainable food growth for local communities that may not have otherwise been able to provide such an outlet. As a bi-national effort in the US and Canada, community gardening provides spaces for neighborhoods to produce sustainable produce that is free of pesticides or other factory-produced by-products. This allows citizens to maintain a level of knowledge about the produce they consume that is not always possible when purchasing from a store. This allows bring the citizens together as a community in an effort to mutually benefit one another by working together to produce the optimum quantity and quality of produce possible. This also gives this community an incentive to behave and farm responsibly and in a sustainable manner.

In terms of moving towards environmental sustainability, the Community Garden movement gives these communities the incentive to produce their gardens and crops in a responsible and sustainable manner. By creating a garden that gives ordinary people a responsibility and incentive to farm sustainably, this movement gives the ordinary person a reason to take interest in responsible environmental practices. In essence, by putting the farming in the hands of the communities, you create a network of groups that have an incentive and a vested interest in practicing responsible and sustainable farming.

For more information please visit the link below:

 https://communitygarden.org/