The Home Gardening Project
Foundation
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The Home Gardening Project |
The Theory of Giving Away Gardens
Equally predicated on the miracle of the seed and abiding
compassion, and knowing that each one of us is interconnected and interdependent
and may at some time find ourselves in need of a way to practice better
health, nutrition and self-reliance - we deliver complete raised bed vegetable
gardens to people in need.
Abundance is provided by the seed. The place to grow it is provided
by the service of a willing worker and the community largess. People prefer
to take care of themselves as much as possible, but when there isn't enough
money or physical strength to continue gardening in the old way, we provide
them with a superior means to provide for themselves.
Raised-bed vegetable gardens are easy to plant, easy to maintain, easy
to manage and are highly productive. People who take just a little care
of their gardens find that they can raise enough produce to fulfill their
vegetable needs for the whole growing season. Visiting on a summer morning,
we would often find the gardeners out in the sunshine, pinching off a weed,
watering, or just enjoying their garden. Children graze on radishes, sugar
peas, and finger-size corn, learn where food comes from, and make contact
with nature in a way not common in urban and suburban slums.Thus the family's
health is improved, and their happiness too, as well as their neighbor's
and the neighborhood's.
A new
vegetable garden is a real change in the real world.
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