Cobb Preserving Community Gardens Reading
I found it interesting finding out that not all community gardens are located in the urban core, but that’s where you find many of them. They are carved into church grounds, tucked into neighborhoods, nestled into school yards and planted front and center on vacant city lots. These gardens and those who tend them contribute to nurturing our community and make it thrive.
Members of community gardens long for their food to be safe, healthy, and fresh. It is a great feeling when you know how your food is handled, grown, harvested, and transported. This can inspire the reader to make educated decisions about our food choices.
Not only can a community garden help increase using healthy food choices, but it can also lead to other beneficial food projects within the community. For example, the author mentioned that in St. Paul, Minnesota a small children's garden that was established led to a community garden that attracted different cultures to volunteer in the garden. Later on, the volunteers wanted to be able to sell the produce that they cultivated in the community garden. This led to a local farmers market that was culturally diverse. It is safe to say that community gardens can actually be a catalyst to increase awareness within the community and aid to share concerns and interests link to food.
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