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Update: My town's community garden went from a few plots to a full food forest in 3 years
Honestly, I walked by it last week and it's huge now, with fruit trees and berry bushes everywhere. It started in 2021 with just some raised beds near the old library. Has anyone else seen a local project just take off like that?
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angela3781d ago
That's so cool it went from a few raised beds to a full food forest. My own gardening "project" is a single basil plant that's somehow still alive, so I'm clearly the expert here. It's amazing what a community can do when they actually work together. Makes me want to go find a local plot, but I'd probably just kill something bigger.
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Read an article about a town in Oregon doing something similar. They turned an empty lot into a community orchard with apple and pear trees. The key was getting the city to agree to a long-term lease so people felt safe investing time. It really does take that kind of commitment from both regular folks and local government. Makes our old library project even more impressive to pull off.
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