Start a community garden near you now

Hooray for growing your own veggies, fruits, and flowers while building community by doing it with your friends and neighbors. In North America there seems to be a whole movement of community gardening going on that is very interesting to watch and inspires to do it, too. My good compañero Stan based in South Dakota is engaged in it just like many others environmentally and politically conscious people.

Community gardening is not only about getting cheaper and better food. It gets you literally into touch with mother earth and teaches you about seasonal nutrition. Even though the Food Coop in Magdeburg is not necessarily – or maybe just not yet – a community garden I have learned a lot about food and think more conscious about food now. Here in Santiago i haven’t found a food or garden collective yet, but i haven’t looked investigated thoroughly yet.

I learnd via dh love life a charming green video podcast about the South Central Farmers a Los Angeles based community garden that is active for 14 years. Its contract is expiring and it is threatened to be bulldozered and replaced by a big box. I’m sending love and hope that they continue their work.

Photo by Flickr user Kaliya.