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http://www.dauphincounty.org/government/Parks-and-Recreation/Dauphin-County-Parks/Pages/Community-Garden.aspx


Community Gardens are sparking up everywhere. If you do not have the allotted space to grow your own garden there are other options. the Dauphin County department Parks and Recreations have created community gardens. The county has eight acres they allow people to rent out a 30 x 30 foot lot. This endeavor beginned in 1977, for the low fee of $10.00 you can rent one or more of the 318 lots available. This is a wonderful opportunity to grow you own vegetables or flowers. The lots are of a large size. Therefore, you want to be prepare for lots hard work. In the summertime, gardens need to be water every day. This is project you can do with combined family members. You can also grow food to share with other, food banks, or friends.

This site is dated April 2013 very current. This is a suggestion of growing your own garden. It does not indicate involvement with the local food movement. Its intentment is share the planning of the gardening process. A very reputable site, PAGov, there is not individual writers listed. They want this community project be a success. By charging a fee of $10.00, that assures the total eight acre will be rented.




Kollin, C. (2012). The Best Business Model for Urban Agriculture Hass Yet to Be Determined. In N. Dziedzic & L. Zott (Eds.), Opposing Viewpoints. Urban Agriculture. Detroit: Greenhaven Press. (Reprinted from Urban Farming: It's a Growth Business, MarcGunther.com, 2010) Retrieved from http://ic.galegroup.com/ic/ovic/ViewpointsDetailsPage/ViewpointsDetailsWindow?query=&prodId=OVIC&displayGroupName=Viewpoints&limiter=&source=&disableHighlighting=true&displayGroups=&sortBy=&search_within_results=&action=2&catId=&activityType=&documentId=GALE%7CEJ3010813219&userGroupName=harr60939&jsid=4eea3879d75e29aa19d55dfe93a84789

The Best Business Model for Urban Agriculture Has Yet to be determined
Urban Agriculture, 2012

Will Allen, the creator of Growing Power in Milwaukee, has successfully figure out the the way to produce large-scale compost operation, fish tanks and grow food. And be able to feed ten thousand low-income residents of the Milwaukee area. This a former basketball player whom is making it all work, he has fourteen green houses. Then the left over food is used for compost to grow vegetables and to feed the tilapia and lake perch in his tanks. His food business goes a step further and teaches life skills, writing skills and jobs for those that need them. He has improved the Milwaukee area.

This is local food movement on a large scale. This is example of a person choosing to help people through growing food. And utilizing their own money to invest. He has a model business. This article was so interesting that I searched for additional information on Mr. Will Allen. He has a website http://growingpower.org/ , his program is currently in 17 different cities.

This particular story has a couple more layers, he hires and trains teenagers life skills. He trains farmers to grow fruits and vegetables in greenhouses. One of his new endeavors to have multi-level greenhouses.

The food from this farm is sold to grocery stores, the farmers market and restaurants in the area. This was encouraging story for me. People are still able to eat fresh vegetables and fruits. This article came from Opposing Views, Harrisburg Area community College Library. This article was accurate, I watched a Steven Colbert interview him on his show. It was great interview. Very funny, but he gave more of his background and the love of growing things.

The intention of this article was to show different ways people receive and give help through the food movement. I enjoyed passing this information on. If there is someone that want to take the initiative to needy a neighborhood, this is one way to help.