Community food security supports sustainable community development and greater involvement and control over all aspects of the food systems by residents and community-based institutions. It also promote greater food self-reliance in the context of the right to food for all people within a globally sustained food system. Since corporations, governments, and the media are all engaged in labeling and spin and image games, we must be careful not to get caught up in this. Through dialogue, we need to do our best to make sure that our concepts and our labels coincide with realities, not wishes. The Jubilant Gardens Project started with a request to have a trained resource person available for information about biointensive gardening.
Biointensive gardening combines French Intensive crop raising with biodynamic practices.
It is an organic growing method which stresses a closed system with a very minor portion of land providing income. Requiring a shovel, a fork, compost, plants and land in the most basic form, the approach is considered among the most efficient and productive gardening techniques ever documented. Even the Peace Corps uses this method in home and market gardening production. The project used a central location to demonstrate techniques to area gardeners by developing home gardens on plots varying from nine square feet up to 100 square feet. Seven households have maintained involvement with the project.