Victory Gardens 2.0 - Ideas for Change in America

Many ideas for gardens, fruit trees in public parks are all worthy ideas to be incorporated into a new public policy for Gardening America, or whatever. I believe the President should lead and speak publicly on this issue to promote home and community gardens, home food presevation, safe and healthful organic food, local farming as example components of a comprehensive local food growing and eating program. Promotes health, physical activity, basic values, sustainability, personal responsibility, healthy food access, environmental health.....

In addition to lawns, decks, and patios, we can utilize abandoned, deteriorated unused urban space, even small neighborhood corners. Huge amounts of city park spaces go unused - let's plant fruit trees and pea patches (shared garden space). Even designated homeless run gardens (although we should also put serious effort into recognizing and SOLVING our homeless/poor/incarcerated/marginalized disgrace - sorry, I digress). On and on, no end to ideas we can come up for better utilizing private and public space for local food growing and distributing. - by Denise Ward