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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 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 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 Gardens Thrive in Urban Neighborhoods
Vacant lots in city neighborhoods transformed into community gardens produce locally grown vegetables and flowers for urban residents in a successful model in upstate NY.
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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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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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Community Garden Tips
A community garden is a cooperative between neighbors to better their existence.
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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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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 at Franklin Park Conservatory
Plant A Row for the Hungry supports community gardens at Franklin Park Conservatory in Columbus, Ohio. These initiatives provide fresh food to the Mid Ohio Food Bank.
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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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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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How to Grow a Community Garden
Go green and bring your neighborhood along with you by creating your own community garden. Whether you live in the city, country or suburbs, you can grow food!
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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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Redefining Community
We need to redefine community to include all the lifeforms who live there.
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Sharing the Spring Seed Stock
Simple tips for spreading extra seeds around the community: Finding those to share with and how to acquire seeds to pass around.
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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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Y2K and What You Can DO!
Y2K and what you can do
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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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Stretching the Family Food Dollar
Family Nutrition - Stetching the Family Food Dollar. Feeding your family a balanced diet on a shoestring.
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Two Tomato
I will be able to savour the taste of cherry tomatoes picked within four feet of my kitchen table.
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Slow down and do.
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A Vegetable Gardener's Guide to Moving House
Caring for a garden is a labour of love, and leaving one behind can be a sad occasion. With careful planning, however, a new house means a new garden to cultivate.
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Albany New York Festivals, Events & Jazz Clubs
Old city charm, fun nightlife, music and tulip festivals, live jazz and urban cool on hip Lark Street make New York's state capital, Albany NY, a great place to visit.
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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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New Year Resolutions for the Vegetable Gardener
Looking back and looking forward all at the same time. Resolving to make changes that will improve the future are what New Year resolutions are all about.
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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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Urban Agriculture: Moving the Field to the Table
a look at growing food within the city
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Urban Agriculture
urban agriculture plays a major role in building a sustainable city
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Community Art
The sun gives life to all of creation in a sculpture in Winnipeg's Spirit Park mosaic sculpture.
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Back to the Foodshed
I am returning to the issue of foodsheds because they play an important role in understanding how food travels within a society and how we can develop an action plan which will move us toward community food security.
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Conscious Simple Living Benefits
How voluntarily living more simply can help reduce poverty by consuming less and contributing more.
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Food Production: Who do you trust?
A look at the food production system and its alternatives.
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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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Grow Vegetables in Containers
Create a victory garden in containers and have homegrown food. Learn about growing a fruit and vegetable garden in small spaces.
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Organic Allotment Without Weeds
Advice on how to control weeds and grow your own vegetables all year round without the with natural fertilizers and organic methods.
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Reviving the Victory Garden
Victory gardens were a mainstay of America's WWI and WWII food production programs. For many of the same reasons, Freedom Gardens are gaining popularity.
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What are Master Gardeners?
Thousands of avid gardeners in the U.S. and Canada have become master gardeners.
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Y2K and the Gardener
OK - I'd prefer to be an ostrich and just ignore this whole issue. I can't believe the world is going to crash when that clock rolls over at midnight. But just in case it does. . . we gardeners can really help!
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Animals in the Vegetable Garden
Most gardeners agree that the vegetable garden is incomplete without animals. Whether considered pets or pests, animals have a role in your vegetable or kitchen garden.
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Book Review - The Night Gardener
"The Night Gardener, " George Pelecanos' 13th novel, follows the ressurection of a 20-year old case on the rough and often heartless, streets of Washington DC.
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How to Grow a Salsa Garden
Growing the main ingredients of a basic salsa recipe in a container garden or vegetable patch is very rewarding for vegetable gardeners and chefs alike.
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IT'S ALL FOR A GOOD CAUSE
Fruit gardeners are generous people. They have the interests of the community at heart. Many people can benefit from all this generosity.
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