Springlife
by Kathy Bassett
Title
Springlife
Artist
Kathy Bassett
Medium
Photograph - Photography - Mixed Media
Description
A little play on a potent flower, ready to spring forth! Our community garden can be a real stress reliever as we all garden with earnest and propriety. Community gardens provide fresh produce and plants as well as satisfying labor, neighborhood improvement, sense of community and connection to the environment.They are publicly functioning in terms of ownership, access, and management,as well as typically owned in trust by local governments or not for profit associations.Community gardens vary widely throughout the world. In North America, community gardens range from familiar "victory garden" areas where people grow small plots of vegetables, to large "greening" projects to preserve natural areas, to tiny street beautification planters on urban street corners. Some grow only flowers, others are nurtured communally and their bounty shared. There are even non-profits in many major cities that offer assistance to low-income families, children groups, and community organizations by helping them develop and grow their own gardens. In the UK and the rest of Europe, closely related "allotment gardens" can have dozens of plots, each measuring hundreds of square meters and rented by the same family for generations. In the developing world, commonly held land for small gardens is a familiar part of the landscape, even in urban areas, where they may function as mini-truck farms.[citation neededCommunity gardens may help alleviate one effect of climate change, which is expected to cause a global decline in agricultural output, making fresh produce increasingly unaffordable.[4] Community gardens encourage an urban community's food security, allowing citizens to grow their own food or for others to donate what they have grown.[4][5] Advocates say locally grown food decreases a community's reliance on fossil fuels for transport of food from large agricultural areas and reduces a society's overall use of fossil fuels to drive in agricultural machinery.[
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May 11th, 2014
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