article about transforming power of community gardens

[ellen]

"The way the project uses gardening as a powerful locus of community
engagement and empowerment demonstrates an important truth about the
social value of food that we seem to have largely forgotten in this
country.

A major reason our food system is so damaged—so dominated by corporate
interests, rife with unhealthy products, and unbalanced by unequal
access—is that we too often fail to consider food a social good or to
understand that growing, selling, and eating food is by its nature a
meaningful social act. What we eat is far more than a pile of
commodities. Not only is food’s essential job to nourish our bodies,
but it can also serve as a creator of quality livelihoods, a locus of
community engagement and cohesion, and an engine of citizen
empowerment and education."


http://truth-out.org/news/item/9552-from-gangs-to-gardens-how-community-agriculture-transformed-quesada-avenue

[Tobias Fox]

THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THIS, ELLEN!!!! THE BESTES YOU ARE!!! I HOPE OTHERS ARE READING THIS AS WELL :-)

 

tobias

[Maya Curry]

thanks ellen, i'm reading this right now !