A city councillor is asking the community gardens to Plant a Row for the Hungry this year. That's a good idea and there are ways to extend it.
Community gardens could become community nurseries in a permacultural redesign of the cities. My community garden on Watson Street could provide raspberry plants for the City Sprout gardens throughout the schools, if they don't have raspberries already. It could supply the city and its citizens with a wide variety of seeds, seedlings, and saplings.
There used to be a state fruition program that funded public plantings of food-bearing perennial plants, bushes, vines, and trees on public land. That was back in the early 1980s, if memory serves, and some of the plantings still exist - the raspberries at the Emily Street garden and a few strays by Cottage Farm Station on Magazine Beach. At one time, the chain link fence around the water pumping station was covered with grape vines. It could be again within a few years.
There was also a raspberry patch behind City Hall near the CEOC food pantry. That hasn't survived.
Permaculture is yet another way that
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