Most cities and towns have multiple f...

Plant Veggies not Flowers

Poverty Reduction and Environment Protection

Randall Wright, Wright Hook
Published Wed Oct 06

Goal
Reduce poverty, add natural nutrients to top soil, involve community, promote healthy lifestyles, reducing city spend, create a well connected and safer community, get educated.

Most cities and towns have multiple flower gardens that are taken care of by city workers. Call your local city hall, ask them to plant hardy vegetables in garden spots instead of the usual flowers.

A few times a year, the community can get together for a harvest. The harvest can then be sold at farmers markets, donated to needy families, or whatever idea someone else may have.

Poverty Reduction
This idea will help reduce poverty if the harvested food is donated to those who need it.

Rebuilding
Adding natural nutrients to top soil building a healthy garden for future generations.

Community Involvement
Involving community by allowing everyone to participate in weeding, harvesting, etc...

Promote Healthy Lifestyle
It will help to promote healthy eating with people walking by a bunch of veggie gardens all day.

Save Money
It will reduce city spend by having community volunteers do some work.

Education
Demonstrations and informational tours and meetings can be held at garden spots for educational events related to growing your own garden in the city.

Harvesting
Harvesting and using your own seeds will eliminate purchasing expensive annual flowers that die and wither each year.

Safer Community
Recreating a well connected and safer community. Getting to know more people in your community will create a safer atmosphere and more people will watch out for each other more.

The infrastructure for maintaining
these gardens already exists in most cities and towns across America.
Some gardens even have automatic sprinkler systems. Very little needs to be done to make this idea possible. Help make 2010 a year of community and health.

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