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Essay On Community Gardening

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Environmental Sustainability is everyone’s responsibility, we all need to take an interest in what we are doing to our planet and make changes, to improve our current quality of life and leave behind a livable planet for future generations. One thing that can be done locally is to create community gardens. Community gardens have been around since the 1960’s, but started to grow in popularity in the 1980’s during the recession. According to the Hamilton Community Garden Network, “a community garden is a space where plants are grown by a community to meet that community’s needs.” Using either private or public plots of unused land is a fantastic way to change run down, neglected spaces into colourful, bright, food producing, full of life property. …show more content…

Currently, 1/3 of the material that enters the landfills is organic. 30% of food (approximately $48.3 billion) is discarded 10-15% of that is from transportation and storage alone. Whether a household takes part in a community garden or not is up to them, not everyone has the time or the desire to be digging in the dirt, however, an effortless way for everyone to take part is to compost their household waste. Bins can be set up around the property so that they can dispose of waste at a time that is a convenient time for them, allowing not only for waste to be disposed of quickly in hot months but to reduce what enters the landfills. Composting allows for gardens to not have to use fertilizers while still being able to add required nutrients to the soil. You do want to make sure that you are adding material free of insecticides, herbicides and weed seeds. You also want to avoid using wood chips and grass trimmings because they will deplete the nitrogen from the soil. Depending on how much support you get and how many bins you have set up, the garden could offer to sell the excess compost to the community for a minimum fee. This could be used to help household plants and provide a small, petty cash for the garden to use for any repairs or new tools that the garden may

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