Today, I've been clicking around the internet to find website with information we could include in the Bartlett Park Community Garden fact sheets. I'm really amazed with the amount of region-specific information that is available on organic gardening; and even more amazed by the number of community gardens there are in the U.S. When these gardens are started in lower-income parts of cities, they tend to improve property values and provide these families with very affordable, healthy food.
If you go to the grocery store, and for the sake of bottom-dollar pricing we'll say a Walmart Supercenter, you might find three small tomatoes for a dollar. They won't taste much like a real tomato and they might not be very ripe- but you only paid a dollar (and the gas to get to Walmart). If you spent that dollar on a packet of tomato seeds from the same Supercenter, you would have tomatoes all summer long for the price of water (pennies a gallon). In my experience, some of the easiest plants to grow are herbs, and we pay two or three dollars for a few sprigs? Maybe growing-your-own is more of a secret than I first thought.
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