Going Global with Community Gardening

For example, trying to be an ever greener city, Paris promotes natural parks and #CommunityGardens.. The urban practice favoring natural parks over formal gardens as the "lungs of the city" has its roots in the Garden City movement and led to the founding of great parks in world cities: Central Park, Golden Gate, Englischer Garten and others. Community gardens in public space is a newer development

A community garden in Paris' 14th arrondissement. Photo by Alex Davies 

Paris just wrapped up its Week of Sustainable Development, a showcase of the City's myriad efforts to promote green thinking, from renewable energy to pedestrian and cyclist-friendly policies. Paris has also made a big push to green its already-green spaces: its parks and gardens. With 82 parks designated for "ecological management" and about 60 community gardens, Parisians are growing their own food and enjoying life in open spaces that are not only more sustainable, but more natural....Read the full story on TreeHugger

According to Why Hunger, 

Community gardens in the United States are part of an international movement.... selected links to international community gardening and urban agriculture networks. In some of these international cases, community gardens merge into the wider reality of urban farming which includes vegetable plots in community gardens, food production in thousands of vacant inner-city lots, and commercial farms in and around cities.  

American Community Gardening Association (USA) list of community gardens covers U.S. States, Canadian Provinces, and individual gardens in the U.K., Australia and Turkey.

I'm keeping my eye out for more examples of community gardening around the world. Kitchen Garden International is a good source. Is there a community garden you'd like to see featured? Please let us know at iCreate and the Mountainair Community Garden so we can feature it here. Email iCreate@Mountainair-Online.net or post as comment to this post