Garden and Local Food Resources
Urban Farming eliminates vacant lots and is turned into beautiful gardens that helps, feed, and teach the environment you live in. Vacant areas makes the United States of America look dirty and not welcoming, these vacant lots should be made into urban gardens or farms that grow fruits and vegetables and offered to the community so that the people in your community could become healthy.
Urban gardens could eliminate the hunger problem and fed over thousands of people. Vacant areas in cities could provide health benefits. “Urban Gardens or any garden beautify the area and galvanize the community while alleviating the hunger problem” ("Urban Farming: Urban Farming Community and Green Science Garden Program." Urban Farming). The urban farming should be free to those who work on or off the garden that are surrounding residents in the community. “The urban farming community gardens and Green Science Program objective is to get rid of hunger and poverty in communities by planting food on unused land and space”("Urban Farming :: Urban Farming Community and Green Science Garden Program." Urban Farming). Through this piece of work the community is brought together to adopt a garden to look after them. The urban farms are planted on school campuses and provide educational vehicles into the curriculum. They also learn how it is good to give back to their community.
When someone comes into a city there is an appearance of fast food restaurants, liquor stores, and vacant lots this is what you call a food desert. This makes cities look very unhealthy. Fast food drive troughs are killing people every day. Urban Gardens helps to keep low income areas fed and healthy. “Urban Gardening/ farming community garden and Green Science Garden program is a sustainable system that helps feed the needy families of urban communities”("Urban Farming :: Urban Farming Community and Green Science Garden Program." Urban Farming).
Cited: Phearson, Timon. "Vacant Land in Cities Could Provide Important Social and Ecological Benefits." Vacant Land in Cities Could Provide Important Social and Ecological Benefits. N.p., 21 Aug. 2012. Web. 17 Dec. 2013. "Urban Farming: Urban Farming Community and Green Science Garden Program." Urban Farming: Urban Farming Community and Green Science Garden Program. N.p., n.d. Web. 11 Jan. 2014.