Can Community Gardens Help?

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Well, just ask community activist David Glenn of the Driving Park area. Glenn is the project director of a community garden on Ellsworth Avenue that's in its second year of cultivation. It's a product of the Driving Park Community Gardens Association and is one of two they operate.

Glenn believes community gardens are part of the answer to exercising some control over what goes on in your neighborhood. And, the garden on Ellsworth is serious business, indeed. They're growing kale, collard greens, okra, cucumbers, pole beans, lettuce, yellow squash and zucchini. Oh, yes ... and watermelon. Those are a lot of good things to eat that are good for you.

Community gardens definitely belong in the mix when you are "Taking Back the Neighborhood. Here's a formula: Do periodic neighborhood volunteer cleanups, plant a community garden, and do periodic graffiti paint-outs. They'll get die message.

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Can Community Gardens Help?

Community activists are rethinking everything as the "Taking back our neighborhoods" movement advances. Residential property any...

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