The Birth of a Community Garden

From Cookin’ with Mari by Marilyn Noble

February 22, 2009

I live in a thirty-something-year-old neighborhood in a close-in suburb of Denver. The developer didn’t give us big yards, but we have plenty of shared green space. The largest of the green areas is known as Tract M, a boring name for a boring three-acre patch of grass that serves as a buffer between the single family homes and the townhouses across the street. Tract M is owned jointly by our HOA and the townhouse HOA. It gets used mostly by people who play Frisbee with their dogs and soccer-playing kids. I’ve always thought it would be a great place for a small community garden. I hate seeing the waste of resources that it takes to keep the entirety of Tract M a green oasis in our arid climate -- a garden would alleviate some of that, yet still offer a place for recreation for the kids and the dogs.

Continue reading The Birth of a Community Garden »