Beautiful #communitygarden in Grandview Heights, #ohio.

#columbusohio #columbus

More edible flowers and herbs harvested at work today for a meal.

#EdibleFlowers #CommunityGarden #Flowers

Hey, my community garden made the news!

https://kitchener.citynews.ca/2023/08/30/frustration-growing-for-community-gardeners-after-recent-vandalism/

...not for good reasons though. Wish this would stop happening every year. Glad we're finally getting some coverage of it though; you'd think after the arson last year there would've been at least some attention.

#CommunityGarden #ComeUnityRoots #DowntownKitchener #DTK @waterlooregion #plantstodon #GardenersOfMastodon #gardening #vandalism

A rainbow of tomatoes! Varieties unknown, the starts were donated to the community garden without tags back in May. What a delightful mystery. #gardening #communityGarden #tomatoes

Read my latest blog from Our Community Allotment - a garden project that I manage with the homeless community in Cambridge https://ourcommunityallotment.wordpress.com/2023/08/22/summer-fun/ #SummerFun #CommunityGarden #CommunityGardening #CommunityAllotment #CommunityIsStrength #BuildCommunitiesNotPrisons #MutualAid #HomelessCommunity #Homelessness #CambridgeHomeless #Cambridge

Nova Scotia is investing nearly $1 billion into updating school infrastructure. #investinschools

Rural New Germany will be getting a new consolidated highschool + elementary school that is accessible!

https://www.lighthousenow.ca/article.php?title=New_consolidated_school_announced_for_New_Germany#:~:text=The%20new%20consolidated%20school%2C%20that,expected%20to%20open%20in%202027.

Would be amazing to see the existing school sites transfered into a community ownership model.

#affordablehousing
#communitylandtrust
#ruralisradical
#communitygarden

They were queuing up at Wilmslow Community Market Gardens first ever stall at the town’s market last month! 🥕🍅🥦

Transition Wilmslow is working towards a ring of gardens around the town growing much of its fruit and veg, and this gave them a new outlet to get the fresh, local, organic food to people.

They also have a stall at their Oakenclough garden at a local children’s centre, and this month, they’re working with a local chef to run ‘plot to plate’ sessions with local families – harvesting straight from the allotment and cooking it up in tasty dishes on the day.

It’s funded by a Transition Together seed funding grant, made possible thanks to funding from the National Lottery Community Fund.

#marketgarden #localfood #slowfood #growitourselves #communitygarden #wilmslow #cheshire #wilmslowartisanmarket #oakenclough #buylocal #growourown #transition #transitiontown

Get your neighbors together to create a #CommunityGarden in that empty block up the road!

Get rid of your gas lawnmower/leaf blower/snow blower/etc and get battery ones instead. (Added bonus--they're lower maintenance and they don't stink!)
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Harvest mid-week at the community garden plot!

First zucchini of the season, last of the mint, some onions and lots of new potatoes (and a mini-artchoke hiding). The potatoes could have waited a bit, but we went ahead and harvested one plant as it gives so much joy to the 8yo.

The tray had "lots of tomatoes" according to the toddler (he had been calling "tomatoe" anything that was round). And the swetest thing is that the next morning he brought his "veggies rock" board book and showed me repeatedly "tomatoes" and "potatoes" and now he learned a new world :blobcataww:

#CommunityGarden
#Garden
#GrowYourOwn
#joy

Kiwis, Szechuan peppers, bamboo for building and herbs.

A team from Transition Town Wellington had a visit to one of the country's oldest forest gardens at Dartington in Totnes with it's creator, Martin Crawford, inspiring plans and dreams for their own fledgling site.

The Wellington forest gardeners reflected: "Our forest garden has been designed for the community, so to attract people to come and use the space we chose fruits that people would recognise, alongside some more unusual but tasty varieties. One aim is to make our town more self sufficient and reduce our reliance on supermarkets, but also to provide a place that people would like to spend time relaxing."

At our recent London gathering, we saw a the grassy corner of an Ilford park which will soon be transformed by the community into a forest garden, and a few miles away, one that's been planted and shaped over two years.

If you're thinking of starting something new in your area, it's brilliant to be able to see it in action somewhere else, to learn and explore what it difference it could make locally. One of the joys of being part of a network!

Jump on our Vive platform to find out if another Transition town is already working on a project you have in mind, or give us a shout if you can't find what you are looking for.

#transitiontown #forestgarden #community #communityaction #climateaction #somerset #devon #communitygarden #growyourown #collaboration

Helping at an event today and harvested some of the edible flowers I’ve been growing at the community garden. So pretty and tasty!
#EdibleFlowers #gardening #CommunityGarden #GrowItYourself #Flowers

Went to the local #communitygarden again this morning to join a working bee. Unfortunately it was cancelled due to weather but I had a great chat with a member. He showed me around the garden and is going to let me know when a plot comes available.

This week I visited different forms of #urbangarden in #Munich with our students to discuss the #GreenInfrastructure planning principle of #SocialInclusion. We ran into very different, school book like examples of #communitygarden. Find the difference. #Urban #GreenSpace

Little bit of nature for your timeline. #butterfly #flower #beechview #communitygarden #speyeria

Sometimes I mention "my" garden, but really it's a #CommunityGarden I share with about 20 other people.

A few years ago, this small lot had an old house that was in very bad shape. It was sold and the buyer intended to build a new one as an investment rental. But for some reason the construction was delayed and it was left as an empty lot after the sale and demolition.

Some neighbors got together and approached the owner, asking if they could turn the lot into a community garden. They made fences and beds out of recycled material like pallets and decking. They planted fruit vines and trees for everyone to share. The local food bank agreed to pay the water bill.

10 or so years later, here we are! Every year we don't know if this will be the last one, the owner will finally need to start building. It could end at any minute.

I wish that cities would plot more gardens or that it was easier to establish them on private property. I love guerilla gardening but it's hard to grow vegetables that way in this climate (you have to water them in summer) and you miss out on the community part.

I think the ideal housing pattern is small apartment buildings (4-20 units, up to 3 floors tall) #missingmiddle with shared gardens. This maximizes the useful space and minimizes wasted space for everyone. You could do this retroactively by converting parking lots into gardens and allowing residential infill to densify neighborhoods. #urbanplanning #urbanism

In some cities the waitlist for community gardens is years long. That's an absolute travesty. How much more value do gardens give people and cities than endless expanse of lawn and pavement? #FoodNotLawns #gardening

Donated 5 pounds of food today to the food pantry harvested from the #school #gardens. That brings the June total to 14 pounds of food donated this month!

Woohoo!
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#volunteer #food #harvest #garden #gardening #GrowARow #Community #CommunityGarden

Are you interested in #community and #gardening and you're located in #KW - specifically downtown #Kitchener ?

We have a couple open spots still at ComeUnity Roots Garden, and we're open to everyone regardless of age, experience, or ability - this is a place to learn and grow (lol) with a community model - we have a few individual plots, but most of the garden is full of shared beds.

Come join us! The honeyberries are ripe in our food forest already ;)

#CommunityGarden @waterlooregion

Lovely morning weeding, harvesting, sowing and generally pottering about in the sun at our #CommunityGarden #OrganicGardening #RaisedBedGarden

#erdbeeren #strawberries #solawi #communitygarden #sustainable

Strawberries planted in raised beds/hill beds does work very well. We got an abundance of strawberry harvest.

Impressions from our #communitygarden Vellenfeld (2)