Community gardens can help reduce negative environmental impacts by promoting sustainable agriculture; reducing food transportation costs and reducing water runoff. Humans, plants and animals can all benefit from urban agriculture since it creates habitats and improves the ecology of the area..
Where is the best place to start a community garden?
Look around your neighborhood for a vacant lot that gets plenty of sun--at least six to eight hours each day. A garden site should be relatively flat (although slight slopes can be terraced). It should be relatively free of large pieces of concrete left behind from demolition of structures..
Here are 12 of the best plants to grow in your Community garden:
Tomatoes.
Every gardener looks forward to their first fresh, sun-ripened tomato right off the vine.
Winter Squash.
This is a “plant it and ignore it” vegetable until it is time to harvest.
Carrots
Beets
Kale
Eggplant
Onions
Cabbage
Community gardens can help reduce negative environmental impacts by promoting sustainable agriculture; reducing food transportation costs and reducing water runoff. Humans, plants and animals can all benefit from urban agriculture since it creates habitats and improves the ecology of the area.
Oct 7, 2014Community gardening may address chronic and non-communicable disease through the provision of opportunities for physical activity, improved
Community gardens are a tangible way to demonstrate public health efforts through organized community-centered activities that link many disciplines.AbstractKEY ELEMENTS FOR LOOKING AHEAD
Community gardens contribute to a healthy lifestyle by: providing fresh, safe, affordable herbs, fruits and vegetables. helping to relieve stress and increase sense of wellness. getting people active, which improves overall physical health.
Can a community garden help patients with diabetes?
Allotment gardening and health:
a comparative survey among allotment gardeners and their neighbors without an allotment. Environ Health. 2010;9:12. Weltin A. A community garden:helping patients with diabetes to better care for themselves. Am J Nurs. 2013;113 (11):59–62. Zick CD, Smith KR, Kowaleski-Jones L, Uno C, Merrill BJ.
Do community gardens produce a lot of food?
Gardens are a part of the local food landscape in rural communities, which face limited food access and high rates of food insecurity. This project showed that community gardens can produce substantial amounts of produce, as evidenced by the 770 pounds of produce grown in one garden.
Do gardens improve health in marginalized communities?
Let’s start with the most basic feature of a garden:
it provides food. And fresh, nutritious food at that. This factor alone means that gardens can not just help alleviate hunger, but improve health in marginalized communities. Poverty status is a risk factor for poor health.
What are the health benefits of community gardens?
Connecting and interacting with nature itself has many health benefits (6), and the benefits of community gardens go beyond improving diet, physical activity, and weight outcomes.
Are community gardens a catalyst for broader community health change?
Themes emerging from interviews (n = 39) and five focus groups suggested community gardens were a catalyst for broader community health change by increasing awareness of the value and absence of healthy food and generating excitement for future PSE initiatives to more comprehensively address food and physical activity access
Can a community garden improve health?
Within developed nations, most studies approach the community garden as a feasible way of improving livelihood, social capital, and physiological health in the era of community disengagement and excess of unhealthy food and chronic diseases
What is a British community garden?
An archetypal British community gardenmight involve a small-to-medium sized plot of land, containing raised beds, crops of potatoes, peas, and tomatoes, and benches, tended to by residents, volunteers, and (or) those working in the third sector
Community health gardens
Public housing development in Chicago, Illinois, United States
Altgeld Gardens Homes is a Chicago Housing Authority (CHA) public housing project on the far south side of Chicago, Illinois, United States, on the border of Chicago and Riverdale, Illinois. The residents are 97% African-American according to the 2000 United States Census. Built between 1944 and 1945 with 1,498 units, the development consists primarily of two-story row houses spread over 190 acres (0.77 km2).
Bell Gardens is a city in the U
City in California, United States
Bell Gardens is a city in the U.S. state of California in the Los Angeles metropolitan area. Located in Los Angeles County, the city's population was 42,072 at the 2010 census, down from 44,054 at the 2000 census. Bell Gardens is part of the Gateway Cities Region, a largely urbanized region located in southeastern Los Angeles County.
Carroll Gardens is a neighborhood in the northwestern portion of the New
Neighborhood of Brooklyn in New York City
Carroll Gardens is a neighborhood in the northwestern portion of the New York City borough of Brooklyn. Encompassing approximately 40 city blocks, it is bounded by Degraw and Warren Streets (north), Hoyt and Smith Streets (east), Ninth Street or the Gowanus Expressway (south), and Interstate 278, the Gowanus and Brooklyn–Queens Expressways (west). The neighborhoods that surround it are Cobble Hill to the northwest, Boerum Hill to the northeast, Gowanus to the east, Red Hook to the south and southwest, and the Columbia Street Waterfront District to the west.
Community gardens in the United States benefit both
Community gardens in the United States benefit both gardeners and society at large. Community gardens provide fresh produce to gardeners and their friends and neighbors. They provide a place of connection to nature and to other people. In a wider sense, community gardens provide green space, a habitat for insects and animals, sites for gardening education, and beautification of the local area. Community gardens provide access to land to those who otherwise could not have a garden, such as apartment-dwellers, the elderly, and the homeless. Many gardens resemble European allotment gardens, with plots or boxes where individuals and families can grow vegetables and flowers, including a number which began as victory gardens during World War II. Other gardens are worked as community farms with no individual plots at all, similar to urban farms.
American non-profit organization
Denver Urban Gardens (DUG) is a non-profit organization that supports community gardens in Denver, Colorado in the United States.
Gardens for Health International (GHI) is an American-based 501(c)(3) non-profit organization that seeks to provide sustainable agricultural solutions to chronic childhood malnutrition. GHI partners with rural health centers in Rwanda to equip families with the seeds, skills, and support necessary to shift the paradigm of food aid from dependency to prevention and self-sufficiency.
The National Garden Scheme opens privately owned gardens in
Charity fundraising event
The National Garden Scheme opens privately owned gardens in England, Northern Ireland, Wales, and the Channel Islands on selected dates for charity. It was founded in 1927 with the aim of opening gardens of quality, character and interest to the public for charity. The scheme has raised over £67 million since it began, and normally opens over 3,500 gardens a year.
Neighborhood in The Bronx, New York City
Pelham Gardens is a neighborhood located in the Northeast section of the Bronx, New York City. Its boundaries, starting from the north and moving clockwise are East Gun Hill Road to the north and east, Pelham Parkway to the south, and the IRT Dyre Avenue Line to the west ending at the esplanade. Eastchester Road is the primary thoroughfare through Pelham Gardens.
Prospect Lefferts Gardens is a residential neighborhood in
Neighborhood of Brooklyn in New York City
Prospect Lefferts Gardens is a residential neighborhood in the Flatbush area of the New York City borough of Brooklyn. The community is bounded by Empire Boulevard to the north, Clarkson Avenue to the south, New York Avenue to the east, and Ocean Avenue/Prospect Park to the west. Prospect Lefferts Gardens was designated a New York City Landmark area in 1979 and called the Prospect Lefferts Gardens Historic District.
Multicultural group in Assam, India
The Tea-garden community is a term for a multiethnic, multicultural group of tea garden workers and their descendants in Assam. They are officially referred to as Tea-tribes by the government of Assam and notified as Other Backward Classes (OBC). They are the descendants of peoples from multiple tribal and caste groups brought by the British colonial planters as indentured labourers from the regions of present-day Jharkhand, Odisha, Chhattisgarh, West Bengal and Andhra Pradesh into colonial Assam during the 1860-90s in multiple phases to work in tea gardens. They are found mainly in those districts of Upper Assam and Northern Brahmaputra belt where there is a high concentration of tea gardens, like Kokrajhar, Udalguri, Sonitpur, Biswanath,Nagaon, Golaghat, Jorhat, Sivasagar, Charaideo, Dibrugarh, Tinsukia, and Lakhimpur. There is a sizeable population of the community in the Barak Valley region of Assam as well in the districts of Cachar, Karimganj and Hailakandi. The total population is estimated to be around 7 million, of which an estimated 4.5 million reside in residential quarters built inside 799 tea estates spread across tea-growing regions of Assam. Another 2.5 million reside in the nearby villages spread across those tea-growing regions. They speak multiple languages, including Sora, Odia, Assam Sadri, Sambalpuri, Kurmali, Santali, Kurukh, Kharia, Kui, Chhattisgarhi, Gondi and Mundari. Assam Sadri, distinguished from the Sadri language, serves as lingua franca among the community.
