Growing a Gardening Community

from OnTheCommons.org:




Growing a Gardening Community
Sharing garden space and a patch of soil is the best means to connect with local green thumbs and enjoy delicious homegrown food.

By Albert Leung


Fans of the Web site Hyperlocavore know there’s more than just sugar, saws and snow blowers that we share with our neighbors. They discuss the advantages of sharing our yards, from a bit of soil for a flower bed to an entire garden, which can connect neighbors, improve our gardening skills and help us to eat more healthy homegrown foods.

Yard sharing is an arrangement between people to share gardening resources – land, time, tools, seeds, skills and labor– to grow food locally. By cooperating in a backyard garden, people can grow more food and flowers, work less weeding and hoeing, eat more locally grown foods and save money.

Since its inception in 2009, Hyperlocavore has steadily grown a vast network of green thumbs across the country. Within the site, people can connect with gardeners in their communities who are interested in participating in yard sharing programs.

“I created Hyperlocavore to encourage people to grow food with their friends, family and neighbors. It’s a social networked yard sharing community dedicated to help people build resilience in their neighborhood,” Hyperlocavore creator Liz McLellan said. ...........(more)

The complete piece is at: http://onthecommons.org/growing-gardening-community

Disintermediating the food supply and the money supply is at the core of our solution. Growing food in a community helps accomplish both.

control at the local level, which is where all important things take place.

Local Local Local. Size is always the enemy. No matter what the model or system one observes, the one truth that constantly emerges is that size is the enemy of the good. With regards to centralization we will probably get close to equilibrium as a function of how much freedom of movement will be permitted in the new fractured states of America.

We'll start dismantling large cities straight away then. Along with any chance to escape small-town bigotry,