Community Gardens

I have spoke many times with you and my coworkers on how much I enjoy gardening and it seems there are more and more people who are discovering that they too enjoy growing, cooking and preserving their own foods. In fact that seemingly universal desire to nurture and grow one’s own food has resulted in more than twenty thousand community gardens across the nation. For all those people out there who want to raise their own fresh veggies and fruits but lack the space to do so, the community garden is the perfect solution.  Several of these gardens also offer gardening classes by skilled gardeners and farmers. In turn, the success of community gardens has created an upswing in farmers’ markets in cities all around the country. No longer considered just a niche event, farmers’ markets have become a neighborhood joint effort. Community gardening is definitely one of those uncommon win win situations benefitting the populace, environment, and economy of those communities in which they exist and thrive.