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Talking community gardens with Alun Morris—transforming a derelict playground into a thriving space for connection, food & wellbeing 🌼
🐝 “Community is Greater Manchester’s superpower”
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A garden can be the first place two neighbors learn each other's names. It can be where someone gets their first seedling, first tip, or first sense that they belong. That's why these spaces matter so much.

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Community gardens not only provide fresh, local food but also strengthen community bonds and resilience. They embody the principle of food sovereignty, where people have control over their food systems, rather than letting corporations and military spending dictate what we eat.

Why grow a bomb when you can grow a salad? Community gardens are the future, folks. 💰🌿

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Community gardens and local food production are key to building resilience and food sovereignty. They reduce our reliance on industrial agriculture and fossil fuels, while fostering community connections and mutual aid.

Ever thought about growing your own food? It's not just about eating healthier, it's about fighting for a future where we grow our own food and not bombs. 🍅🥬🌱

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Community gardens and local food systems promote food sovereignty, reducing reliance on industrial agriculture and big agribusiness. These initiatives not only provide fresh, healthy food but also build strong community ties and resilience against food shortages.

🌱 Imagine a world where we grow food instead of bombs. Join the fight for community gardens and local food systems. 🍅🥦 #FoodNotBombs

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Cool cities w/ beautiful #greeninfrastructure #greenroofs #livingwalls #communitygardens #foodforests #raingardens #permeablepavers #composting #greenalleys #habitatcorridors #rainbarrels #compost #bioswales #streettrees #nativeplants #constructedweetlands. Many low cost interventions w/ good ROI

Learn about Olla Irrigation Pots. Your garden will love you!

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Our Fruit Tree Grafting workshop is this Friday, sign up to reserve your place or we have another workshop next Sunday, but it's almost sold out. www.bit.ly/treemusketeersevents
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Volunteers in #communitygardens are driving #climateaction and building stronger, greener communities.

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We truly need #Canadians to focus on #CanadianEvents, #localCanadianOrganising

We need to #BuildCommunity
We need to build #CommunityGardens & #Resiliency to #ReichWing #propaganda
Nations fall when bridges fail, & nobody fixes them:
We need #Community to build & maintain bridges, gardens, programs

We're facing rising food costs and a changing environment. It's important we build a strong, united community to tackle what's coming.
Get to this event. Building a resilient community is essential. #IWD26 #InternationalWomen'sDay #CommunityGardens #Resistance

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Committee roundup: Appropriations and policy bills advanced on Feb. 12 — transportation, public safety, education and more The Senate Appropriations committee advanced a package of bills Feb. 12, including transportation projects (Olga Road, Rodeo Road), border‑related reimbursements and fencing, AI border security, cybersecurity investments, school cellphone policy changes, a light‑rail study, graduate medical education funds, invasive‑species mitigation, and a slate of smaller local grants and programs.

The Arizona Senate Appropriations Committee just advanced a critical package of bills impacting transportation, border security, education, and more—what's next for these initiatives?

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Senate Education Committee advances bills on research security, school-safety funding, interoperability and community gardens The committee adopted a research-security amendment to SB 13-27, advanced appropriations for school-safety programs (SB 15-82 and SB 15-83), and approved a $500,000 grant program for school community gardens (SB 15-98); votes were largely positive with some members signaling floor concerns or requests for clarifying amendments.

Arizona's Senate Education Committee is making waves with new bills aimed at enhancing research security, boosting school safety funding, and promoting community gardens as "living classrooms."

Get the details!

#AZ #ResearchSecurity #CitizenPortal #CommunityGardens #ArizonaEducation

Film Festivals, Screenplay Contests, Submissions Enter the world's best film festivals and screenplay contests. FilmFreeway makes it easy to discover, submit and get tickets to thousands of events.

Amazing news! Urban Garden was just selected by Nature Without Borders International Film Festival via FilmFreeway.com! Snap! @NWBIFF. Thanks my team and @NYFA @QA & @NYCDOCA for the $$$s. #communitygardens #gardenersworld @NYWIFT #WomenMakeMovies #womensupportingwomen #womenfilmmakers #documentary

"Ireland has among the lowest numbers of #communitygardens and allotments in the EU".

This new report from our friends at the @rediscoveryctr.bsky.social explores how Ireland’s cities can play a much bigger role in delivering a "circular bioeconomy".

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#GetToGardening

Yes. This is a food shortage construct. It is designed to make us too weak to fight back.
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Hands wearing gardening cloves harvest ripe tomatoes from a garden. Text below: Researchers find community gardens' contributions to global sustainability are under explored.

#DidYouKnow researchers know little about community gardens' effect on sustainability?

A new literature review from NatCap's Tong Wu and other researchers analyzes nearly three decades of research on community gardens: go.nature.com/3Ltnbn8

#sustainability #communitygardens

Recently received the RHS In Your Neighbourhood report on our Berkley Avenue Garden in Levenshulme.
We managed a 94% score from the assessment of our work in 2025, which we're very proud of achieving.
We've got more plans for it and are hoping to increase that rating this year😍🌸
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I start working on seedlings next month. Gardening for giving is a form of community activism.
#CommunityGardens #Community #WhatNext
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🏘️IMSPARK: Affordable Housing Feeds, Builds, and Heals🏘️

#ClimateResilience, #CommunityGardens, #FoodSecurity, #HealthEquity, #IMSPARK, #IslandWellbeing, #MālamaĀina, #PublicHousing, #Scaping

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Placemaking Click to read more on the website.

From pop-up parks to community gardens, placemaking brings life and purpose to our shared environments. What's your favorite placemaking example? 🌷

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42 Foot Growing Dome Greenhouse Kit — Arctic Acres - Geodesic Growing Dome Greenhouses This growing dome greenhouse kit is our largest offering: capable of producing a large quantity of plants, fruits, and vegetables. This model is ideal for micro-cultivators, gardeners, farm-to-table r...

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Draft Southwest Chaska Community Park plan emphasizes inclusive playgrounds, trails, disc golf and flexible athletic fields Marshall Grange updated the Chaska City Council on the Southwest Chaska Community Park master plan, reporting community feedback and a preferred concept that includes a universal-design playground, Miracle League field, disc golf, picnic shelters, trails and a flexible athletics area; staff aim to advance to a 30% design and return in March.

Exciting plans are underway for the Southwest Chaska Community Park, featuring a universal-design playground, a Miracle League field, and an 18-hole disc golf course—get ready for an inclusive community hub!

Learn more here

#MN #MinnesotaCommunityPark #InclusivePlaygrounds #CommunityGardens

#Ottawa is now accepting applications for community-led greening & gardening projects 🌱

From food gardens to pollinators and rain gardens, this program helps build greener, healthier neighbourhoods.

Apply Jan 5–Feb 3
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Pasadena council approves package of ordinances, fees and appropriations; several donations accepted The Pasadena City Council on Dec. 16 approved a package of final- and first-reading ordinances that include new Parks & Recreation fees, CIP contract appropriations and sidewalk improvements, and accepted multiple donations to volunteer programs and Parks & Recreation.

The Pasadena City Council just green-lit a series of impactful ordinances, paving the way for new Parks & Recreation fees, vital community improvements, and generous donations to local initiatives!

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The Beauty & Hidden Dangers of Urban Community Gardens Since moving back to British Columbia and the Vancouver area this past summer, I’ve been enjoying my walks in the city. Some of my favourite places so far include Pacific Spirit Forest on UBC land,…

The beauty and hidden dangers of community gardens ... #gardens #urbangardens #communitygardens themeaningofwater.com/2025/12/21/t...

Community gardens function as essential social infrastructure, analysis suggests A new review published in Current Opinion in Psychology suggests that community gardens function as vital social infrastructure that contributes significantly to individual and collective health. The...

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