Community gardening
March 24, 2008
Right now there are 20-40 people getting ready to work in community run, Neighbor-Space owned gardens in Humboldt Park. Each will have adequate space to grow enough veggies for themselves, but probably not enough room for much else. Some, the Harold Washington Victory Garden and the Our Block Community Farm at Potomac and Washtenaw, have contiguous space that could be farmed. Through intensive gardening practices, this land could be quite productive, either over the long term, such as with perennial herbs and fruit trees, or in using quicker growing crops like lettuce greens, spinach or peas, for the greens.
Humboldt Park seems a hot bed full of ambitious gardeners and community activists. We’ve declared that growing ones’ own food is a political act, and a democratic right. Lifting our voices and our shovels, it’s time soon, to get up to our knees in it.
