NYC Community Garden Map

Green Oasis and Gilbert's Garden

9th Street Community Garden

La Plaza

Other Involvements:

Community gardens could vary from familiar ( victory garden) areas where people grow small plots of vegetables, to large "greening" projects to preserve natural areas, to tiny street beautification planters on urban street corners. Some grow only flowers, others are nurtured communally and their bounty shared. There are even non-profits in many major cities that offer assistance to low-income families, children groups, and community organizations by helping them develop and grow their own gardens.each measuring hundreds of square meters and rented by the same family for generations. In the developing world, commonly held land for small gardens is a familiar part of the landscape, even in urban areas, where they may function as mini-truck farms. because of the involvement of community garden, there are less crime activities held in the environment surrounding of the community.

Purpose:

- Community gardens provide fresh produce and plants as well as satisfying labor, neighborhood improvement, sense of community and connection to the environment.
- owned in trust by local governments or not for profit associations.
- Community gardens may help alleviate one effect of climate change, which is expected to cause a global decline in agricultural output, making fresh produce increasingly unaffordable.
- Community gardens encourage an urban community's food security, allowing citizens to grow their own food or for others to donate what they have grown.
- Advocates say locally grown food decreases a community's reliance on fossil fuels for transport of food from large agricultural areas and reduces a society's overall use of fossil fuels to drive in agricultural machinery.
-  Community gardens provide other social benefits, such as the sharing of food production knowledge with the wider community and safer living spaces.

What Are Community Gardens?

Community gardens are one means through which these goals can be achieved. Community gardens provide space for community members to grow healthy food and improve the nutrition of their communities, provide opportunities for physical activity, and improve the community through beautification and citizen engagement.