The community garden movement, born in the 1970s, has gained momentum throughout the past decade. According to the Trust for Public Land’s Center for City Park Excellence, there are at least 650 community gardens under park agency jurisdiction alone in major U.S. cites. Jeffrey Hou, Julie Johnson, and Laura Lawson provided insight on the movement [...]
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We just read a nice story about residents and a community group working to revitalize the Stockyards neighborhood in Cleveland, which has recently had homes going for as low as $1,500, an increasing supply of empty parcels and no viable plans for redevelopment. Writing in Communities and Banking (pdf) (the magazine of the Federal Reserve [...]
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With the community gardening movement experiencing increasing popularity, some cities are undertaking innovative efforts to expand access to these facilities. In Philadelphia, Mayor Michael Nutter directed the creation of a strategic plan called Green Works. One of the plan’s key goals is to “bring local food within 10 minutes [walk] of 75 percent of residents. [...]
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An article in the Philadelphia Daily News on the city’s burgeoning reliance community garden grown food mentions an issue dealth with in many cities creating gardens, but then wondering what will happen to that land when development returns: The houses that once stood on 49th Street near Brown were built on unstable fill. Decades ago, [...]
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The news program 60 Minutes recently featured Alice Waters and the locally grown food movement, visiting the Edible Schoolyard that Waters helped create. The school garden offers a great example of connecting kids to the growing and making of food. Also, Citiwire recently featured an article from Farley Peters on an increased government role in [...]
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Community gardening is a growing area in which parks are playing a role. Karrie Jacobs of Metropolis magazine reviews a new book on urban farming and talks about the places she sees as ripe for it. The best thing I learned from Hungry City is that urban agriculture doesn’t need high-end architecture. Steel devoted a [...]
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