community gardens

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community gardens

The garden on Green Street

2002
A neighborhood unites to create a community garden on an empty lot, then must fight to keep it when the owners of the lot want to build a parking lot.

In the children's garden

1994
Children are welcome at an urban garden where they plant seeds, watch them grow, and enjoy their harvest.

Greening the city streets

the story of community gardens
1990
A photo essay tracing the urban gardening movement in the United States, with a special focus on the Sixth Street and Avenue B Garden in Manhattan.

Our community garden

2004
A diverse group of people in San Francisco shares the work and fun of a community garden.

Reclaiming our food

how the grassroots food movement is changing the way we eat
2011
Presents nearly sixty gardening projects designed to provide foods for the local area.

How community gardens work

2014
Explains how community gardens work, the advantages of gardening, including supplying food, rest and recreation, learning, sensory gardens, and sharing responsibilities, and takes a look at community gardens in the future.

City green

1994
Marcy and Miss Rosa start a campaign to clean up an empty lot and turn it into a community garden.

The big idea

1996
Eight-year-old Luz Mendez is determined to turn a run-down vacant lot into a garden like the one her grandmother had in Puerto Rico, but she must convince her neighbors to help.

Community soup

2013
In a garden outside a Kenyan schoolhouse, the children work together to harvest the vegetables they have grown and make them into a soup for everyone to share, but Kioni's goats have followed her to school today and they are trying to eat all the vegetables.

Jackson Jones and the puddle of thorns

1995
When his mother gives him a garden plot for his tenth birthday, Jackson Jones hopes to earn enough money to buy a basketball, but all he seems to get is trouble.

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