Community Garden

Community garden is a growing initiative in most American cities and communities. This initiative is intended to encourage local communities to engage in healthy eating practice and organic food consumption. Many communities make used of grants to established community gardens to make the community self reliant and established a relationship with the environment.

Community gardens provide more benefits then just providing organic food, it provides a catalyst for neighborhood and community development, and stimulates social interaction and opportunities for cross-culture connection.
In the fall of 2008 Macon Roots, an organization which promotes community gardening in Macon, started a conversation between the Beall's Hill Neighborhood Association and Centenary Church about creating a neighborhood garden. With the help of volunteers from the neighborhood, Centenary, and Macon Roots, the community broke ground on the garden on May 2, 2009.
A little over three years since the community garden was established I had the opportunity to visit the garden with my class. There I saw fresh vegetables and flowers. There is a great potential for the garden to provide both social and economic benefits for the community but I was disappointed about the under used of the space and abounded plot of land. It might have been my visit to the garden was the wrong time, but the spirit of community interaction and total involvement was absent. It look as if there is a very few people who have interest in the community garden and are working hard to keep it up. I hope they proof me wrong on my next visit to the garden. I hope to see the land fully utilize and experience a sense of community.

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