Healthy Eating Through Urban Gardening
Neighbors are responding to money problems and health concerns by setting up shared city gardens.
In an effort to cut costs and fill the table with healthy produce, a number of American families have turned their backyards into vegetable gardens.
But you don't have to live in the suburbs or own your own house to take part in the gardening trend—city dwellers who lack yards or private growing space have been banding together to set up gardens in urban areas.
Local resources such as San Francisco League of Urban Gardeners and Seattle Tilth aim to educate and empower those who want to give community gardening a try, while organizations like Urban GardenShare match people with available space.
While health, frugality and food safety are some of the top reasons that urban gardeners begin the hobby, many also crave a stronger sense of community or a way of finding balance.
"There's something that's very settling—times that are uncertain like this—in doing something like gardening," Chris Adams, organizer of Stapleton Greenway Garden in Denver, told the city's CBS4 News.
The American Community Gardening Association maintains a list of shared gardens across the U.S.
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