The Power Of Community Gardens
Here’s how you can put down roots in your neighborhood.
By Carrie Blackmore
Cincinnati Magazine
April 13, 2026
Excerpt:
Kymisha Montgomery, urban agriculture program coordinator at the Civic Garden Center, believes in the power of community gardening. Why eat a tomato that’s traveled all the way from Florida or Peru when they’re grown locally? “Having access to local foods with more nutritional value— a more robust taste, texture, smell—can increase enthusiasm surrounding healthy food,” she says.
A garden also brings people together. Montgomery sees it happen time after time in her work supporting the center’s network of more than 60 independent community gardens and while conducting its free 11-week Civic Gardener Development Training classes. Held each year from January to April, the training might be something to consider if you’re wanting to start or join a community garden.
As far as general advice, Montgomery says first you should decide between joining an existing community garden or starting a new one. “Most likely there’s a community garden in your neighborhood you just haven’t discovered yet,” she says.
Consider the type of garden you want to join. There are allotment gardens, where each gardener pays a fee to access a bed or beds and can be provided with soil, tools, access to water, and seeds and plants. There are pantry gardens, where everything is donated to a food pantry. At school gardens, the food is grown for school use, typically for educational purposes rather than for student consumption. Foraging gardens usually have an open invitation to pick fruit or scavenge for herbs or whatever is growing there.
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Source: https://cityfarmer.info/the-power-of-community-gardens/
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