For our project, our team addresses (1) eradicating hunger (2) food sovereignty in our neighborhoods, (3) networking with neighbors and organizations for support. Being able to share the bounty with your neighbors builds strong communities and is the by-product of a beautiful and healthy garden.
An excellent example of how people and neighborhoods are actively creating solutions to food insecurity and food deserts. This reminds me of African Americans’ cooperative movement and even during slavery time but on to WEB Dubois and Septima Clarke cooperative economics to today. Lovely history o
Wonderful! I love that you’ve continued the research you started in Dr. Z’s class too!
Great information. Do you have additional insight on what I can do as a rent and not a property owner? Are raised mobile beds my best bet?
I can’t grow in the ground due to the same reasons and I have tried container gardening. I had an old plastic tub I painted and planted in this year so I didn’t have to buy any containers. Just an idea if this helps.
Thank you.
wonderful presentation!
Thanks for including historical information — ideas and inspiration.
Thank you for mentioning the WWII gardens. My grandpa lived in Chicago and shared memories with me of the garden they had at a vacant lot during this time when he was a kid. I haven’t heard many people talk about it and forgot myself until now. It provides a great framework for ideas that can be done now. If only HOA and city guidelines would change so that people could plant gardens, bettering the culture and health of the community should be how the policies are formed. Thanks for the thoughtful work.
You can have your garden! Contact Tacoma Metro parks…actually, I don’t know where you are, but there are city and national programs like the National Free Food Project. Activism is behind this surge in home owners and apartment complexes turning over their lawns for vegetable gardens, herbs, and bees. An boxed beds and pots work, too. Go ahead.