Community Garden – As Much for Inspiration as Food Production Touch the Soil News #2033 (photo – Community Garden) (Courtesy of USDA, Public Domain CCA 2.0 Generic) The Times of San Diego comes with an interesting story of a community garden being built in a city park. There was almost $500,000 raised for the park. …
Touch the Soil News #1966 (Photo – Waterloo Community Garden – Courtesy of Waterloo District) The Waterloo region in Ontario Canada is home to almost 600,000 people and is surrounded by rural areas. Nearby, farmers have created a 10 acre gardening area and rented the land to about 15 groups and individuals for growing food.…
Touch the Soil News #1901 (Feature Photo – Redcatch Community Garden – Courtesy of Redcatch Community Garden) Bristol 24/7 News brings us the story of the city of Bristol in England and a land rent fight that has erupted with a Community Garden. The city wants to raise the land rent on Redcatch Community Garden…
Touch the Soil News #1795 (Feature Photo – A Community Garden – CCA SA 4.0 International, Tdorante 10) Richmond, a town of 200,000 people lies in the middle of the larger metro area of Vancouver, British Columbia (population 2.6 million). Richmond just opened its 11th and largest community garden on Monday, April 4th, at which…
Touch the Soil News #1730 (Feature Photo – Industrial Food – By TUBS – Own work CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=16493789) Shine news portal of China brings us a video of how urban local food is transforming lives in China. You can click on the following link to get to the news page and the video. Of…
