Showing posts with label community gardens. Show all posts
Showing posts with label community gardens. Show all posts

Enterprising community aims for total food self-sufficiency with free edible landscapes

Imagine strolling through your town and finding the post office surrounded by raised beds, lush with produce that is free for the taking, 24/7. Or a police department with a gratis community vegetable garden, complete with curly kale, carrots, lettuces and onions. And orchards, as well as berry bushes, lining public walkways that offer up fresh fruit -- on the house. Sound too good to be true? Not in one innovative hamlet where a veritable paradise of edible landscaping has taken root. What's more, the community is working towards absolute food self-sufficiency by 2018.

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