The island of Oahu, home to Hawaii’s largest city Honolulu, hosts a population of over 1 million. This relatively small island is mostly mountains with very little land to grow a garden. While there are efforts at expanding community garden plots, there are over 600 people on wait lists. The People’s Network news portal brings…
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 #1922 (Feature Photo – O’ Fallon Garden Club – Courtesy of O’ Fallon Garden Club) Many community gardens are places where people just show up to tend to their individual plot. However, Carolyn Sitzes of O’Fallon, Illinois (33,000 people) founded a remarkable community garden. O’Fallon Garden Club is a vibrant organization…
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 #1889 (Feature Photo – Allotment Garden – CCA SA 2.0 Generic, Allotment Gardens by Alex McGregor) Community Growers in the small nation of Ireland (5 million people), have become alerted that their gardening plots are not secure from development. A new movement has started to ensure that growing allotments are secure…
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 #1722 (Feature Photo – Teaching Gardening In New York – By SUMMER RAYNE OAKES – How to Make a Plant Love You: Houseplant Masterclass at 00:43, CC BY 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=79089634) The Queens Daily Eagle news brings an interesting grass-roots story. Community gardeners are pettioning the city to designate community gardens as…
Touch the Soil News #1639 (Feature Photo – Greenhouse – Community Garden – Courtesy of City Farmer News) The Newfoundland Provincial Government in Canada just allocated $100,000 to expand and enhance community gardens in the province. Last year the projected established 23 new community gardens and enhanced 78 others. Government intervention into local and urban…
Touch the Soil News #1372 (Feature photo – Urban Farm Icon – Public Domain) While it is unusual to turn an outdoor basketball court into an urban community garden, it is also unusual for a church to buy the land and turn it into a farm to help develop young people. WGN 19 has more…
Touch the Soil News #1319 (Feature photo – Community Gardening – CCA SA 3.0 Unported) After decades of industrial farming, it is becoming more common knowledge that much of the food eaten has toxic residues and otherwise disrupted by excessive processing and preservatives. With a typical dinner plate having foods from thousands of miles away…
