COMMUNITY GARDEN

 A community garden is a solitary piece of land gardened thoroughly by a group of people. Community gardens utilize either individual or shared plots on private or public land while producing fruit, vegetables, and plants grown for their impressive manifestation. Around the world, community gardens can fulfil an assortment of purposes such as aesthetic and community rehabilitation, physical or mental well-being, or land conservation.

Community gardens fluctuate widely throughout the nation. In North America, community gardens gallivant from knowledgeable "victory garden" areas where people grow small plots of vegetables, to large "greening" projects to shelter natural areas, to insignificant street beautification agriculturist on urban street corners. Some accumulate only flowers, others are nurtured communally and their bounty shared. There are even non-profits in many major cities that offer employment 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 pertinent "allotment gardens" can have dozens of plots, each measuring hundreds of square meters and leased by the same family for generations. In the formulating world, commonly held land for small gardens is a familiar part of the landscape, even in urban areas, where they may function as market gardens. They also practice crop rotations with versatile plants such as peanuts, tomatoes and much more. For example, one community garden can consist of several raised beds on an empty lot and neighbours can come by each day to attend the plants and pick food to eat. An extraordinary community garden can be in the yard of a house of worship, and the harvest stocks the soup kitchen and food bank. In urban communities with limited available land, several raised beds in a lot can be rented out to community members, so each renter has their own gardening space. Yet another community garden can grow on the privately owned lawn behind a house, and the gardener can distribute the produce to the neighbours as it's harvested in exchange for volunteer labour. As you can see, there are multiple ways to identify a community garden as such, but the common element among them all is that more than one family or household both contribute to the work and privileges from the produce.

Community gardens may help alleviate one effect of climate change, which is expected to cause a global decline in agricultural output, generating fresh harvest increasingly unaffordable. Community gardens are also an increasingly popular method of changing the built environment in order to promote health and wellness in the face of urbanization. The erected environment has a wide range of positive and negative effects on the people who work, live, and play in a given area, encompassing a person's chance of developing obesity. Community gardens encourage an urban community's food security, certifying citizens to grow their own food or for others to donate what they have grown. Advocates say locally grown food diminishes a community's dependency on fossil fuels for transport of food from gigantic agrarian areas and reduces a society's comprehensive use of fossil fuels to drive in agricultural machinery. A 2012 op-ed by community garden advocate Les Kishler scrutinizes how community gardening can supplement the so-called "positive" ideas and activities of the Occupy movement. The people working in the garden benefit from exercise and sunshine, as well as the therapeutic windfalls of working in a garden. Weeding a garden is particularly effective in stress relief and provides mental health benefits to the partaker. Learning about the ways plants grow and the best constraints to help them thrive can provide the mental and intellectual stimulation of cultivating a new skill. Also, a community garden can change the culture of a neighbourhood by providing a shared interest and activity that brings people together.

Types of gardens

There are multiple types of community gardens with distinct varieties in which the community can participate in.

Neighbourhood gardens are the most common type that is normally defined as a garden where a group of people come together to grow fruits, vegetables and ornamentals. They are identifiable as a parcel of private or public land where individual plots are rented by gardeners at a nominal annual fee.

Residential Gardens are typically shared among residents in apartment communities, assisted living, and affordable housing units. These gardens are organized and maintained by residents living on the premise.

Institutional Gardens are attached to either public or private organizations and offer numerous beneficial services for residents. Benefits include mental or physical rehabilitation and therapy, as well as teaching a set of skills for job-related placement.

Demonstration Gardens are used for educational and recreational purposes in mind. They often offer short seminars or presentations about gardening, and provide the necessary tools to operate a community garden.