Community gardening: Growing together

Community gardens have probably been around as long as humans have been growing food, but nonetheless they are a still a relatively recent development in Ireland.

Most people are familiar with allotment schemes where a piece of land, sometimes public but often private, is divided into plots which individuals rent in order to grow their own fruit and vegetables.

A community garden, however, differs from an allotment in the sense that it is a piece of land gardened by a group of people for the benefit of the group and the wider community.