How to Create Community Gardens in your Neighborhood?
Community gardens are a great way to use any unused land for the benefit of your neighborhood. If you are one of those people who live in an apartment in the city or having very limited space available for a garden, it is still possible to plant your own vegetables and enjoy a plentiful harvest from your personal garden every year. Take part in an existing community garden activity you have a chance to because you will find one of the wonderful gardening experiences you can have. We will look at what Community Gardens can Offer. 1. Community Gardens Offer Shared Knowledge When you have your own area in the community garden, you will have the chance to work and interact with experienced gardeners. You can interact and learn from them everything about gardening. In a community garden, you can always find someone available which can help you and to provide advice. You can then take advantage of their knowledge and expertise and see first hand what works and doesn't work in the garden. Gardeners in many community gardens often conduct group meetings which they share new ideas, advice, provide suggestions and even ask questions. Some group meetings even invite special guest speaker or organize a trip to some places such as a botanical garden, farms or orchard. If your community garden does not have any group meeting, what you can do is to invite a few of your gardening friends to lunch or dinner and you can discuss with each other and providing ideas on gardening. 2. Sharing Resources for Community Gardens You have the opportunity to share resources such as gardening tools or wheelbarrows in a community garden. You can even team up with a few gardeners to bulk purchase items such as fertilizer or fencing and this would help you some money which can be use for other purposes. A community garden is the ideal place for sharing resources such as tools. This is because many people that use community gardens tend to work at different times. This means that if each gardener only needs to purchase one or two tools, you will have many tools available to everyone which some people are not able to afford. 3. Harvests are Gathered and Shared in Community Gardens. A community garden allows you to have a fruitful harvest in a limited space even though you didn't plant much. Community gardens work best on a bartering system. Each gardener will plant one or two items that they are specialize in and during harvest time, trades can be made for the vegetables that weren't grown. Everyone will benefit and has a huge harvest from these trades.
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