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The Community
Garden
35 Another solution for city dwellers with
limited space is to share. Community
gardens are places in a city where people INGREDIENTS OF A GREAT
can get together to grow food and other COMMUNITY GARDEN
plants. They add green spaces to TOOLS: Many community gardeners
neighborhoods and can make a world of share tools that stay on-site so people
difference in a food desert, where fresh don’t have to lug their own and can
produce is hard to come by. split the cost. The tools are kept in a
locked shed, and members have keys.
36 No two community gardens are exactly WATER: A long hose and a rain barrel
alike. Some are group efforts, where all the are handy when rainfall alone isn’t
work and the harvest are shared and enough to give the plants a good
maybe even sold at a farmers’ market. soaking.
Others are divided into separate plots so REST SPOTS: Some community
each person or family can have their own. gardens include areas where members
Most expect members to tend their can chill out and little kids can play
without trampling the plants.
gardens regularly and do some communal SHARED KNOWLEDGE: One of the
work, such as cleaning out the common best reasons to grow food alongside
areas before winter. others is all the information and tips
shared among gardening friends.
Every dollar that’s spent on a community garden plot
may yield up to six dollars’ worth of veggies.
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