July 2000 Community gardens grow because people like grubbing around in the good earth.
Community gardens grow because people like the taste of fresh carrots, cucumbers and collards.
Community gardens grow because people like to prepare the earth, plant the seeds, water the plants, and pull the weeds. One community garden in Gainesville grew from a meeting in the fall of 1999 between NRCS State Outreach Coordinator, Ann Bowens and Neighborhood Nutrition Network Program Director, Ellen Huntley. The residents of a senior citizen apartment complex in Gainesville expressed a desire to have a vegetable garden in their own backyard. They wanted to grow their own vegetables. They wanted to be able to get out in their own backyard and tend a garden.