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Advantages to Community Gardening
Join a community garden to meet other gardeners, learn about organic gardening and trade plants and seeds with other gardeners.
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A Community Garden in UK and USA
An overview of the community garden (as termed in the USA) and allotment gardening (as termed in the UK), along with resources, with notes on a model NY community garden.
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Community Gardening
Community Gardens are a great way for people in the city to have their own plot, as well as join up with a group of gardeners from their area. Find about how to join one, or even start your own, in this article.
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Community Gardening Discussion
Melanie Burns shares some of the joys and challenges she encountered this season in her urban community garden plot.
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Community Gardens
A community garden brings people of all ages and descriptions together. There is no "typical" community garden. Each community garden is as unique as each community...
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Community Gardens Alleviate Hunger
There are many benefits of community gardening such as supplying nutritious food, encouraging community involvement, sharing skills and improving the environment.
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A New Community Garden
My gardening weekend included setting up a new community garden.
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City Kids In The Garden
City kids visit a community garden in Brooklyn and learn to value green spaces.
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Community Gardening, Community Building
Actually, the community garden enables people to become neighbours, not just people who live on the same street or nearby but people who stop and say hi, share a few minutes with one another.
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Community Gardens
As we head into uncertain times, it may well be time to start a Community garden in your neighbourhood. Failing this, grow some sprouts at home.
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Community Gardens and City Farms
Community Gardens and City Farms focuses on the United Kingdom. Gardening information on starting or locating a community garden or city farm near you.
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Community Gardens, Part 3
If a community garden is going to work, then there are two things that need to be in place or the potential problems will erode the garden.
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Community Gardens, Two
Many community gardeners share the surplus that a properly cared for garden will produce.
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Community Gardens: Right Livelihood
Gardening can teach us a lot about being good neighbours
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Community Wildscaping Options
Planting your yard is not the only way to become involved with wildscaping. Community gardens offer some pleasant learning experiences.
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Ending hunger, a micro response
Local community action can reduce hunger.
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Food First
growing food cooperatively builds community
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Hold a Plant Auction Fundraiser
A plant auction is an excellent way to raise money for a local garden club, association of gardeners, or community garden.
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Let's End Hunger!
There is much that we can do all we need is compassion and a willingness to get together and discuss the possibilities.
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Plant a Friendship Garden
Planting a garden with friends is a wonderful way to reconnect to nature and bond with the people you love.
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Rain!
If we take water for granted, many of us aren't even that kind to rain, we simply hate it.
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Redefining Community
We need to redefine community to include all the lifeforms who live there.
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Saving the Weeds: A Lunch in the Community Gardens
During a community garden clean up, I host a "weed walk", serve wild foods, and encourage stewardship. Recipes for Wild Seed Crackers, Melilot Cheese Dip, Anytime Tea, and Japanese Knotweed Bread.
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Shop Locally
buying your food locally is a good community investment.
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The Community Garden
Community gardens fight hunger.
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The Community Garden, Part 2
The neighbourhhod meeting an essential part of community gardening
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Violets and Prayer Seeds
Planting seeds while praying for the continuance of a community garden; recipes for Spring Salad with Violets and Japanese Knotweed Sauce
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Welcome to the Foodshed
The first in an ongoing series exploring local foodsheds.
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Y2K and What You Can DO!
Y2K and what you can do
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A COMMUNITY OF GARDENERS
Gardeners help to build strong communities. Here's how gardeners can make a difference in community life.
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10 Community Conservation Ideas
By reaching out to neighbors and organizing community events, we can help protect our environment and each other.
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Boulevard Gardens
What a Blooming Boulevard program is about and how to keep yours within the height limits usually set by ordinance.
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Eco-Groups Keep Busy in August
A listing of some environmentally oriented events and activities scheduled for August.
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Freegans Are Radical Recyclers
Freegans recover a multitude of items besides food when foraging. They find furniture and appliances that they can use or repair which prevents less landfill pollution.
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In Season
Celebrate the year by enjoying each month's special offering from the vegetable garden, market, or the wild. It's not only good for you and the planet, it also tastes better.
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Preparing to Work in the Garden
There are many things to consider when planning a trip to work in the community garden plot, including food and water requirements, clothing, tools and materials.
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Signs of Spring!
Ways to get this year's garden and harvest started for little or no money. Forager's Calendar - what is ready to harvest now. Recipes for stocking up on field garlic, greek garlic and potato dip, and orpine relish.
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Street Corners, Dandelions, and Blackberry Hill
Thoughts on growing up in the city loving the wild, and on finding garden space in an urban environment. Recipes for Great-Grandma's Dandelion Greens, Wild Berry Jam, Dandy Beer, Brambleberry Cordial
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Summer's Bounty
The wealth of Summer is in the abundance of wild and cultivated foods that are ready to harvest. Share the wealth!
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The Organic Allotment
Interest in self-sufficiency, rising food prices and concerns about pesticides contribute to the current boom in allotment gardens in the UK.
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??What's In The Box??
I have added a less visible, less tangible, and totally indefinable tool box to the links section of Mural Creation. Tool Box For Community Builders is a treasure trove valuable to those mural artists and communities that decide to make mural art an integral part of their community life.
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Cheap (Organic!) Eats
Wholesome food does not have to be a luxury. You can make your dinner table green without breaking the bank.
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Garden Books as Holiday Gifts
Those gardeners on your gift list are sure to love books. Whatever their gardening interest, there is a perfect book.
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