Here you will find new books, organizations and links to community gardens. This area of urban agriculture research is always in the news.
Gardens go in and the community rejoices.
But then there is the tragedy of the loss of a garden. Creating community gardens costs very little money for the positive results it achieves for the people involved. Given the dangerous effects of pesticide residues on children's physical and intellectual development, an organically grown community garden provides inexpensive, vitamin rich food to the earth's most vulnerable citizens, the children. This blurring of rural-urban boundaries has postmodernist connotations. And inside, where a great variety of food is growing, the hanging shirts of the children, parents, and grandparents who work in the plot during the day are filled with the breath of the nightly breezes.