Plant Parenthood is an organization with the purpose of raising awareness and promoting urban gardening in New York City giving a feasible and economic alternative to do it.

Community Gardening Basics
Communal Gardening is fun not only gives everyone some gentle exercise but is a great way to interact with your neighbors. Creating a community garden is simple, you need space and lots of helping hands. You and your neighbors could make a good use out of the roof or common areas in your building or neighborhood by creating a community garden that everyone will be able to take care and have access to it.

Community Gardens Benefits

• Community gardens economical beneficial to maintain, as the labor involved maintaining the garden is share amongst the neighbors.
• The space used for the community garden can be also use as a place to retreat for urban noise and disturbance. In your community garden you can relax and enjoy your fruits of labor.
• Community gardens gives the opportunity for individuals that do not own a land to have some land property to produce their food.
• Having a garden in your community gives everyone a change to enjoy fresh and nutritional food.

Keep in mind that Community Gardens can be use as both recreational and educational areas. They provide living classrooms for children and workshops activities for the community in general.

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References
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Growing urban health: Community gardening in South-East Toronto
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Health Promot Int. 2007 Jun22(2)92-101. Epub 2007 Feb 26

Impact of Garden-Based youth nutrition intervention programs: A review
Robinson-O’Brien R. et al.
J Am Diet Assoc2009 Feb109(2)273-80

California teachers perceive school gardens as an effective nutritional tool to promote healthful eating habits.
Graham H.
J Am Diet Assoc. 2005 Nov105(1)_1797-800.