Benefits of a Community Garden
A Community Garden occurs when you take a piece of land and share it with friends, neighbors and community groups for growing vegetables, fruits and flowers. Benefits to the larger community include beautifying the area, turning unused spaces into productive spaces and numerous environmental benefits. Many community gardens also provide food to local food banks.
Individual benefits include increasing feelings of community involvement and pride, health benefits from eating nutritionally rich foods and from increased activity for physical health. Community gardens provide "hands-on" learning opportunities about gardening, the natural world, food and nutrition and more.
Coffey County Community Garden
Williamsburg Community Garden
East Central Kansas Economic Opportunity Corp.
Live Healthy Franklin County Mission:
To improve community health through policies that support healthy eating and active living.
Funded in part by a grant from the Kansas Health Foundation