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Faith-Based Community Gardens

Beyond the traditional neighborhood community garden, there are many other groups of people growing food in the Upstate, such as faith-based communities.  Faith-based community gardens are funded and supported primarily through religious organizations, such as churches and synagogues or faith-based non-profit organizations. Faith-based gardens are often developed with the intent of providing fresh produce to [...]

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Community Gardens – The Neighborhood

As we mentioned last week, the heart and soul of a community garden is its members.  Although most people imagine community gardens to be a few raised beds serving a handful of families, they are actually as diverse as their human counterparts, ranging in size, function, purpose, style, and vegetation.  In Greenville, each garden is unique in [...]

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What is a community garden?

As we described last week, Gardening for Good is a network and resource center for community gardens in Greenville, SC.  So, you may be wondering, what is a community garden? At Gardening for Good, we support the American Community Garden Association’s broad and inclusive definition of a community garden as any piece of land gardened [...]

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