#community garden

[jillraggett]

Plant of the Day

Wednesday 24 April 2024

This container was filled with a display of Muscari aucheri 'White Magic' (grape hyacinth). This clump-forming, bulbous perennial is great for a container and can then be planted out at the front of a border.

Jill Raggett

#Muscari #grape hyacinth #white flowers #container #bulbous #bulbs #plants #horticulture #garden #community garden #marengo #orkney

[ecozoic-futuresaur]

I need a front yard garden ASAP. They’re so fucking pretty. Let me be cute and feed my neighbors.

#ecofriendly #green anarchism #solarpunk #anarchism #front yard garden #garden #community garden

[the-meme-monarch]

what if there were little guys. what if they were flowers but also vaguely animal shaped. what if they were like the smurfs or perhaps fraggles

edit: hey i drew more of them :]

#i just like flowers and also little fellows #the art gallery #idk how to tag them. I’m not sure if they’re gonna be margins characters #community garden

[thoughtportal]

Homegrown National park on patios and balconies

https://linktr.ee/homegrownnationalpark

#tiktok #solarpunk #solar punk #homegrown national park #native plants #community garden #gardening #garden #native garden #DIY Garden #DIY

[theseptembersim]

Henford Garden Centre English country inspired outside garden centre for your Sims to get all of their flora and buds. Functional as a community garden, as well having access to a plant shop, grocery stall and food truck.

MOO and debug used Bath: 2 World: Henford-on-Bagley Type: Community Garden

Origin ID is TheSeptemberSim

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#ts4 #the sims 4 #sims 4 no cc #the sims community #sims 4 buy mode #ts4 build #sims 4 build #sims 4 #community lot #henford on bagley #community garden #Youtube

[solar-sunnyside-up]

Excuse me while I cry over this amazing community garden,,,

they hold workshops and craft nights one of which was a seed bomb making night! They had a full moon party, they have local bands play with bond fires and you can make s'mores while listening to music in this garden at night!! They have soup nights!! they hold karate classes in this garden!!! They have punk flags and a zine station!!

Just imagine you get a space to garden and hang out sure, but you also get a place to hang out, for free!! (without capitalism gross hands holding you back) you get to have some pumpkin soup and some s'mores, read a book in, listen to music in a free space. hang out with your friends, neighbors, family, do a yoga class, have movie nights.

Between this, the community laundry mat, and the community pub, i can almost feel what a solarpunk community could feel like. Like these arent in the same community or city, but if you could do it could you imagine how awesome life could be??

#rambles #community #solarpunk #gardening #cottagecore #love #hopepunk #anticapitalism #anarchist #im tagging it as that bc this is what community without class getting in the way looks like #community garden

[veiligplekje]

Lierop, the Netherlands

#lierop #noord-brabant #the netherlands #church #catholic church #community garden #garden #villagecore

[ancientstarrydynamo]

Hello Cosmos

#photography #macro photography #nature #flowers #flower #plants #garden #cosmos #cosmo #pink #pink flowers #community garden

[home-phoenix]

Eastern Curve Garden. Dalston. London.

#urbansketch #urbansketchers #urbansketcherslondon #usklondon #artists on tumblr #sketchbook #drawingonlocation #directwatercolor #directwatercolour #paintdirect #painting #watercolors #watercolour #community garden #lovedrawing #lovelondon #lovenature #garden #dalston #pumpkin #art #londonlife #november #artwork #autumn #watercolor #plein air #outandabout

[kegg-ca]

Ooooh… so that’s why the 4th letter in “KEGG” stands for “Greenhouse”!!! 🙃 (ie. up until the side panels finished going on at today’s workbee (Saturday, September 2nd), Kimberley Edible Gardens & Greenhouse had kinda been greenhouse-less since setting up the community garden up in townsite 2-ish years ago — thankfully nobody noticed that we had actually been 'KEG' the last couple years because now our other ‘G’ is up & looking g-g-g-great!)

#kegg.ca #gardening #community garden #kimberley bc #greenhouse #british columbia

[jillraggett]

Plant of the Day

Sunday 21 April 2024

In this community garden in Dunkeld, Scotland, the Muscari latifolium (broad-leaved grape hyacinth) was creating a display. This perennial has a single leaf to each bulb, with deep blue-black flowers, topped by a crown of pale sterile flowers.

Jill Raggett

#Muscari #broad-leaved grape hyacinth #blue flowers #bulbs #bulbous #community garden #dunkeld #scotland #plants #horticulture #gardens #garden

[darlingillustrations]

Fight Food Deserts with Community Gardening

“Gardening is fun!” When I talked with David Thompson, founder of Food is Free Washington, that’s why he said he started doing it. It was so much fun, in fact, that he grew too much produce in his 2,000 sf garden to use it all himself, so he started giving it away. He went on, “The thing that became more fun than growing my own food was sharing it. It’s the joy of giving stuff away.” That is the heart of the Food is Free movement: building community by sharing food independence.

Read more about the real life gardener who inspired Chapter 3 of Calico Jill and the Search for Cheese!

What Food is Free Does

Food is Free Washington is a non-profit co-run by David and Ursula Thompson in Tacoma, WA. The goal of Food is Free is to take care of our planet and take care of each other in the process by feeding people. The Thompsons seek to reduce food waste by getting food into the hands of local people who need it. They also educate people on how to grow their own food so that our community is more self reliant and less dependent on outside forces.

Food deserts stretch across many of Tacoma’s communities, but especially so in downtown Tacoma, east Tacoma and south Tacoma. A food desert is an area where local residents do not have access to fresh and healthy foods. Food is Free focuses in particular on these communities in need.

While a food bank might serve 50-100 people, Food is Free serves on average 220 people with each food giveaway. Food banks are great resources for gathering food and giving it to those in need, and they even supply Food is Free with donations through the Emergency Food Network and Feeding Feasible Feasts, but Food is Free is so much more effective in its distribution for two reasons: it goes into the heart of communities where there is food insecurity, and there is no requirement to show an ID or prove income. Anyone who shows up gets food. It’s as simple as that.

Food Is Free Sharing Tables

Ursula and David’s solution to the food deserts that stretch across Tacoma is gardening. Food is Free has planted 3,000 square feet of community garden space across the city. They started setting up tables next to these garden plots, and they would set out food for anyone to take.

They encouraged others to follow suit. At the height of the pandemic, there were 97 of these sharing tables scattered around Tacoma which became a sort of mobile food pantry. During a time of social isolation and social distancing, people formed a sense of community around sharing food surplus with each other within their local communities.

These tables were popular for a time, but there were obstacles. Even though the Thompsons would post instructions on accepted and restricted items, there wasn’t enough education about proper food storage. People started dropping off things like chicken breasts and milk, things that would spoil if left on a table.

These days, the total number of food tables is around 10-12, and they are run independently.

Food Accessibility in 2023

One thing the Thompsons are particularly excited about is the Gleaning Project, a program that is run through Harvest Pierce County in which people can sign up to have the fruit trees in their backyards harvested. Last year, 27,000 pounds of produce was harvested thanks to this program and shared with local hunger relief organizations.

Food banks are getting fewer donations than they used to. EBT benefits were cut in March. With rising food inflation, fewer people want to make donations. Add to these factors the job insecurities that we’ve all faced thanks to the pandemic, and more and more people are turning to feeding themselves with their own gardens.

Food is Free Washington is supporting these burgeoning green thumbs with seeds, plant starters and resources. Ursula explained, “You can grow an extra row. You can grow an extra plant. We just want people to do it with us. All of us gardeners together, we can help feed our community.”

Food Is Free Drop Offs

If you live in Tacoma, you can pick up food on Tuesdays in the extra parking lot across from (west of) Hope Point (formerly Calvary Baptist) Church. Address: 6511 South C Street. Follow @tacomaurbanfarmer on instagram to stay abreast what is available from week to week.

Resources:

Food is Free Washington: https://foodisfreewashington.org/ Emergency Food Network: https://www.efoodnet.org/ Feeding Feasible Feasts: https://feedingfeasiblefeastsllc.org/ Harvest Pierce County: https://piercecd.org/190/Urban-Agriculture and the Gleaning Project (where you can register your fruit trees!): https://piercecountygleaningproject.org/

Calico Jill and the Community Garden

You can read Calico Jill's story on tumblr at the following links. (The Community Garden is Chapter 3):

Chapter 1 | Chapter 2 | Chapter 3 | Patreon

The artwork is this post is a painting of mine titled Put A Little Spring In Your Step. It is Watercolor and Ink on 8×10 inch hot press watercolor paper.

#community garden #food deserts #food scarcity #activism #calico jill and the search for cheese #calico jill #tacoma #washington state #pacific northwest

[the-meme-monarch]

hey so people seemed to like my little flower ocs :]

#the art gallery #community garden #in my last post where I said ‘i have at least one new flower’ i meant forget me not but then i designed ! four more !

[thoughtportal]

Homegrown National Park

Grassroots call-to-action to REGENERATE BIODIVERSITY by PLANTING NATIVE.

https://linktr.ee/homegrownnationalpark

#tiktok #Homegrown National Park #valentine's day #biodiversity #plant native #DIY garden #gardening #community garden #garden #solarpunk #solar punk #native plants #garden plants #house plants #plants

[rachelsrandomsphotos]

Passion Flowers (Passiflora)

Taken at The Yoga Garden in Melbourne, FL

#passion flower #passion flowers #passion fruit #fruit #fruit vine #flower #flowers #flower photography #plant #plants #plant photography #nature photography #photography #florida #florida photography #florida photographer #the yoga garden #yoga garden #community garden #nikon photography #nikond3500

[records-of-dirt]

How to Plan a Garden

When creating a community or school garden, records are important!

Eventually, someone else will take care of the space and records show what the space looked like, what you did, and how they can properly take care of the space. 

Good records require a few basic elements:

The Original Design

Photos of the space before you’ve done anything

A map of the space with dimensions & notes on terrain(slopes, holes, ect.)

What plants were already there

Notes on their original condition

How long they were there(if you know)

Your Design

A dimensions-accurate drawing/map of your design

A list of what you plan to change

Be as specific as possible!

Plant Record

Every plant in the garden

Name

Photo(preferably two, one of “in bloom” and one of “dormant”)

How to care for them

Past issues

Common invasive/non-native plants & how to get rid of them

Plants that cause itching/rashes

Monthly Records

Record major changes(planted, took out, issues, etc.)

Weather (cold, hot, rainfall - how did it impact the garden?)

Tips & techniques (records are also to help you care for your garden)

It can feel like a lot, but it doesn’t have to be fancy!

Records tell the story of the land, and guide current and future generations.

I’ve included a few samples of garden designs, and plant lists, as a starting point!

Happy gardening y'all!

Sincerely,

records of dirt

#garden #community garden #school garden #solarpunk #cottagecore #records of dirt