Community Gardens: One of the Feasible Ways to Address Environmental Issues, Increase the Economy, and Maintain the Food Security
Over the summer, I worked at P-Patch Community Garden program. I assisted the low-income gardeners to communicate to the patrons as well as to process the EBT (Electronic Benefits Transfer) and vouchers. In addition, I had an opportunity to learn experience and skills from the both gardeners and patrons towards sustainable urban agriculture. I was interested in studying how practice of sustainable urban agriculture would benefit the diversity low-income gardeners and patrons in three dimensions of environment, economy, and food insecurity. By participating and observing as well as reviewing the literature researches associated with community gardens, I discovered that sustainable urban agriculture encourage environmental sustainability, maintain the economy, and maintain the food security.
