We started raking out the weeds, got people from the neighborhood to help, and we started making these boxes from GreenThumb. We got the Special Ed kids involved and as you can see, it's looking pretty good. The best gardening teachers are gardeners themselves. Many people in inner-city areas have come from other areas where they had farming or gardening as part of their heritage. Look for these people to be part of the core group of initiators when starting a community garden.
Any group of people can create a community garden.
Senior groups, youth groups, women's and men's clubs, civic associations, or just an informal group of friends, neighbors or relatives. I have been telling the people that if they organize the group, I'm willing to help them a hundred percent because I want to see a community, a clean community, a better community. And beside that, the people that live in there, they're poor people, they plant their own vegetables and they save money. And that's very important. To me, that's very important.