Community Gardening

We at the ACGA have a broad definition of what a community garden entails. It can be urban, suburban, or rural. It can grow flowers, vegetables or community. It can be one community plot, or can be many individual plots. It can be at a school, hospital, or in a neighborhood. It can also be a series of plots dedicated to "urban agriculture" where the produce is grown for a market.

There has also been a link associated with community gardens and lower crime rates.

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Rachel Carson The Superhero

Carson was born in Springdale, Pennsylvania on May 27, 1907. She started writing papers at eight, and had her first story published at age eleven. Reading through everything Rachel Carson did in her lifetime is phenomenal. One thing many people know Carson for is the book Silent Spring she wrote about all the terrible things DDT sprayed by humans to kill bugs caused birds to lay softer shelled eggs causing a generations of failed fertilized eggs.