This. Lots of useful vegetables aren’t even bulk producible because of natural properties that make them hard to grow in large industrial scales. It’s the micro-nutrients and supplementary food content that a community garden produces, not your major staples. You’re not growing a corn field in metro Brooklyn, that’s not the point. But it doesn’t actually take much effort to add some locally grown lettuce to your diet from a community garden instead of shipping it all the way from California, and it reduces demand therefore lowering prices for everyone else to do so.
tankfox@bookwyr.me 2 weeks ago
People think of veg as something with a timer that counts down; you buy it as fresh as it’s going to be and then you have to eat it before it turns into slime.
In a garden the timer is running the other way; every day the food gets fresher and better and bigger, and if you’re planting at the same rate you’re eating the garden becomes a daily food pipeline.
Be aware; gardening is a gateway to canning, because that’s how I keep eating my garden in December
GreenBeard@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
{looks at pressure cooker and mason jars} It’s too late. I’ve already been taken.
I’ve seen some fun community greenhouse projects too that can operate year round. There are options if there’s sufficient interest.