Community gardening - A great way to grow together

ANYONE lucky enough to have seen how powerful a force for good the simple idea of a community garden can be while on a visit to many of the world’s great and diverse cities — London, Havana, Seattle, Yokohama, Bogota or Copenhagen say — won’t be hard to convince that those projects can have hugely positive benefits on so many levels.

They can bring otherwise disparate people together to share skills and effort. They can provoke a positive sense of place and the very best kind of communal pride by turning what can often be barren or waste land into something productive, beautiful and inspiring.

They encourage self-reliance and can help provide a sense of achievement often too rare in our everyday lives. They are a perfect forum for people to learn how everything we do in this world is connected. They are a perfect place for people to learn that the environment we all depend on must be respected and cherished.