Community Garden Project
What is a Community Garden?
A small scale low- investment neighbourhood communal gardening venture, where the primary purpose is growing vegetables or fruit. Community gardens may have an explicit gardening philosophy, i.e. organic growing, they may be treated as one garden or they may allow participants with individual plots to manage them as they see fit.
Benefits of Community Gardens:
- Improves the quality of life for people in the garden
- Provides a catalyst for neighbourhood and community development
- Stimulates social interaction
- Encourages self-reliance
- Beautifies neighborhoods
- Produces nutritious food
- Reduces family food budgets
- Conserves resources
- Creates opportunity for recreation, exercise, therapy, and education
- Reduces crime
- Preserves green space
- Creates income opportunities and economic development
- Reduces city heat from streets and parking lots
- Provides opportunities for intergenerational and cross-cultural connections
What could Taranaki's community gardens look like? we need to you to help create the vision. contact bee@hivetaranaki.co.nz
Other regions with community gardens:
http://good.net.nz/magazine/community-gardens