Tiera Singleton
Hemphill Garden Club
Hemphill High School
10th grade
Community Gardens
What do you think when u hear the words community gardening? Do u just think of a simple plant or the small garden in your yard that is only ran by one person. Well, it's a little more different than that. Community gardening is any piece or things u grow in your garden and you come together with your community and share your things and learn plus you grow as a community. You are working together and finding out things you didn't know. Gardens can contain many different things from simple plants to delicious food. The community garden helps you learn about people and learn some things that may help you in everyday live. You could garden and find someone at the community
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You may ask why, because that is easier for them and sometimes some of the fruits and vegetables are not grown originally. If you didn't know gardening can help you in everyday life, like air pollution . Air pollution has gotten really bad, but gardens restore oxygen to help reduce the amount of air pollution that we get everyday. The community garden helps educate and teach a lot. Gardening can get the community together, learn about how much pollution, wastes and the world we are living in today. Gardening helps you because you can afford more things. The crime we have in this world is so dangerous and community things gathers people together and can protect you and keep you safe. The community garden is not just about gardening it’s helps you in everyday life. Anything thing is community gardening can save you a lot of money. Instead of you having to pay for things you can grow it yourself. If you have one right now, do you have a goal at the end ? If you plan to set up one you should have to a goal to push yourself and work together the process will be great! There may be bumps threw the process but everyone goes
In the book Seedfolks by Paul Fleischman there are many different characters, and even some of them cross paths. A community garden was started just by one person therefore everyone follows. They all learn how to get along with other people, how to not stereotype so much, and how to depend on each other in their community. All of them struggle with something, whether it's with family, friends, or feeling stereotyped. They learn the importance of a community, and realize how much they really depend on each other. Having a community is important for all people to incorporate diversity, culture,and unique stories into their lives. You don't realize how much people depend on their community until its gone. The importance
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The community I live in is called Ravanna it is a macro system in which we help each other. In the reason bad weather when trees fell on the road men from the community got their saws and cleaned the trees from the roads and other neighbor’s yards, helped cover roofs until repairs could be done. The women and children picked up small debris and took them to the designated areas for clean up later. Restoring homeostasis to our
Community gardens originally began as a way to provide land and technical assistance to unemployed workers in large cities and to teach civics and good work habits to youth. Community gardens were also important during World War I, the Great Depression, and World War II. The rebirth of community gardening in the 1970s was a response to urban abandonment, rising inflation, environmental concerns, and a desire to build connections among neighbors and expand green spaces. Community gardens are becoming more and more popular due to the many benefits: food production, income generation, recreation, education, and beautification. A new focus is being placed on rebuilding social networks and building up the infrastructure of blighted urban communities.
A community: otherwise a group of people who share common culture and heritage a populace, an alliance, an association, a neighborhood, a district, a society. A dictionary definition is what the population settles for as far as the context where they consider themselves as apart of a community. The word community in the 14th century, had derived from the word “common,” in that time, meaning fellowship in a ‘community’ of relations or feelings. However, the term then became used concretely as to pertain to a body of fellows or townsmen. It is vital though, that the youth involves themselves genuinely in a community, and not assume that they’ve done so simply by physically moving into one. Such a task means a challenge, however, through awareness and inspiration, the benefits of being apart of a community are within reach.
The Georgia College gardening club is located behind the baseball field and adjacent to the soccer field on West Campus. The learning site is shaped like an elongated rectangle positioned on the edge of a gravel parking lot. A chain link fence encompasses the site, and the only way in is through a double-wide wooden door. Once inside the fence, I immediately noticed the grounds were bare in some areas while others were layered in mulch. Looking to the right of the doors, there were about eight raised seeding grounds with an assortment of vegetables growing within them. As we toured this particular area, I noticed a lot of the plants were dead and/or beginning to sprout—later I learned that most of the plants had been seeded at the beginning of the Fall 2016 semester and have not been doing so well. Cayla, our guide throughout this experience, explained that Georgia soil is rather dry and full of clay, so it is difficult to get a variety of food grown in such a small, infertile area.
The victory garden or home garden was something that was highly popular during World War I and II. People would grow their own produce to help with the local food supply and to ease pressure on the local economy. At that time, almost one third of vegetable that were produced in the United States came from people’s home gardening (Wikipedia.org). Since then, there has been a massive decrease in the home garden. Store bought produce had become common place and as a result people have stopped growing their own food. However, by encouraging home gardening, communities can have sustainable, more nutritious produce readily available.
I aspire to participate in the SCSU-CARE Community Garden program, because this is a great opportunity to integrate knowledge gained from my public health classes into practice and to ease my transition into the public health workforce. This is also a unique opportunity to engage in community-based research, which aligns with my career goals. Also, this internship reminds me of a time in high school where I helped to develop a garden that grows produce (e.g., tomatoes, peas, corns, lettuce, and carrots) to support the entire school. This was a great learning experience in which I got to learn about the different nutrients and health benefits. For this reason, when I read about this internship, I was extremely excited to apply because I will
Community symbolizes a group comprised of various genders, races, and social classes, who are able to collaboratively live in the same area and share the same interests regarding their surroundings. The citizens residing in this area strive to develop and sustain the atmosphere they would like for their families to thrive in. Difficult to build, but easy is tear down, a community provides support, guidance, and a sense of belonging.
Since those in poverty would be gaining better nutrition, the social problem of obesity would decline. Besides providing fresh food to food deserts (areas where people rely on dry, prepackaged foods), gardens are proven to decrease the crime rate according to a 2013 study from UC Davis (Urban Vine 2015). High crime traps children indoors and prevents them from exercising which increases the obesity rate; gardens would counteract this. Furthermore, since plants consume CO2 green roofs and green walls will help minimize the social problem of pollution and the emissions of greenhouse gases. Likewise, producing food locally decreases the pollution from transportation. Moreover, hydroponics often time reuses their water source, which means less water is required compared to traditional growing.
Community service is a voluntary, unpaid act of kindness that an individual perform to benefit and help others who are in need. It is important for individuals to do community services. It is not only about helping the community but, also making a difference in someone’s life. It can help a person grow and build connections mentally, physically, and emotionally. Mentally, a person who does community service is able to change their perspective of the world and appreciate the things they have. Physically, it can help a person be more motivated and explore what is going on in their community. Emotionally, it can help a person feel kindness therefore, it can also help an individual interact with others, build a relationship, and further their communication. Participating in community service can help a person become more active and involved in their community, it can also build your work related skills and make you gain experience to network with future employers and companies. Community Service helps an
Gardening or horticulture is the activity tending and cultivating a garden especially as a pastime. In the other words, gardening is the job or activity of working in a garden, growing and taking care of plants, and keeping it attractive. Retrieved from dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/English/gardening. Horticultural therapy is a relatively new discipline combining horticulture and rehabilitation disciplines. It employs plants and gardening activities in therapeutic and rehabilitation activities to improve human wellbeing. Gardening is a very good therapeutic activity for someone who have disabled and mentally ill especially depression because it can be effective for healing, restoring and improving health and wellbeing in the recovery of depressive symptoms (Letitcia Y. Alston, 2010). This can be
A Community can be defined as a group of people who don’t just live in the same area, but also share the same interests, experiences and often concerns about the area in which they live. Often when individuals have lived on a street or in an area for a while they become familiar with each other and the issues surrounding them. Children often attend the same schools and grow up together, again sharing similar experiences. In some instances adults may work together, and quite commonly all community members will share the same doctors, dentists, hospitals, health visitors and other public services and facilities.
Home gardens offer a wide variety of benefits to the environment and serve a diverse group of people. Home gardening provides a source of fresh produce and free of chemicals, it also gives you complete control over the chemicals and products used during the growing process. A home garden allows you to pick the produce when its ripe, unlike produce at the store is often picked before its fully ripe. The quality and flavor of the freshly picked produce from home is better than the produce that might have unknown chemicals and was likely picked several days or weeks before being sold. The produce retains more nutrients when consumed shortly after being picked, making your home garden vegetables a healthier option. A garden also provides a positive environmental impact. The compost allows you to recycle certain kitchen and yard waste into a nutrient-rich additive for the garden. This provides natural fertilizer for you plants and reduces the wastes you produce. If you choose to avoid or limit chemical use, you reduce pollution from your gardening activities. Besides being good for the environment gardens have environmental gains for us. Gardening help control urban temperatures, If the environmental landscape design is effective it can cool your home in summer and warm it in winter, it can also reduce the energy cost by up to 20%. Gardening, and all the physical activity that goes along with it, leads to a better overall physical health, weight loss, improve you bones, and reduces the risk of having osteoporosis. “In a study of 3,310 older women, researchers from the University of Arkansas found that women involved in yard work and other types of gardening exercises had lower rates of osteoporosis than joggers, swimmers, and women wh...
Community service is an invaluable experience that everybody should have. Through community service you can help yourself by helping others. You learn your strengths and weaknesses, on top of everything you learn about others and the world. Through my sixty hours of service with Colleges Against Cancer, I have learned a lot.