Community gardens decorate New York City's urban landscape

[@da1stamericus]

I grow on my balcony and terrace, in my apartment. Wind is my nemesis. And I also have a community garden 20 minutes from Amsterdam. It's awesome, but I know I am extremely lucky. I wish more people could eat and grow their own food and cut flowers.

[@adajemison1779]

I am so very happy to see CBS doing a story on city gardens. The Liz Christy garden is very special to me. I have gone there with my friend since they began the garden....

[@charlieganote353]

The way this is reported tells such a small part of this movement - start your own, take a deeper look, and see the potential for real change if done globally and in support of eachother

[@toniy5515]

Beautiful and restful. The volunteers are much appreciated.

[@jaridkeen123]

We need to redesign our cities to have less roads for cars and more parks, and roads for bikes only.

[@silkwoodart]

That was a stupid uneducated dumb as a nail comment.

[@yusefkhan1752]

@@silkwoodart 21 likes vs zero

[@silkwoodart]

@@yusefkhan1752 All you're saying, is that there are at least 21 people that are on the same level of agreement with a dumb comment. That doesn't surprise me.

[@martindagoberto7165]

100% - car-centric city culture is a way of the past

[@godoggo407]

Good for them!!! Chasing with pitchforks. I am on your side.

[@Kangaruworld1]

Message to all. I see lots of people talking about community gardens for general hospitals to help with mental health. But what about having some community gardens for mental health hospitals. Mental health facilities patients could greatly benefit from having a garden at their facilities as well. And it would give them more fun and healthy extracurricular activities instead of just blank colorless walls, tv, music and books. If we are talking about creating community gardens to benefit mental health, then Mental health institutes should definitely be included in the quest for health and healing. They should not be abandoned. Plants for everyone, everywhere!! Anyone out there ready for this challenge?

[@anactaneustheeleventh2542]

Ah this is beautiful!!!! I love it.

[@jennifert8740]

I like the writing of this piece: irony, alliteration, smooth transitions… the reporter is funny and asks good questions

[@patricemarie2960]

Fascinating, beautiful oases in the city! ... So sadly, in the 1970's, ..... throughout the entire City, many of these gardens were razed, to develop apts, and buildings! .... There was a very beautiful garden space, right off Riverdale Ave, in the King, Riverdale section .... that grew spectacular plants, vegetables, and flowers! It was much more than a respite from the City grit, .... just minutes away! It was a very special, neighborhood refuge! It was a serious, deeply felt loss, when the bulldozers came ... to begin the building, of a small apt complex, and adjoining parking lot!💓💕👍

[@patricemarie2960]

@John Lee Francis All New Yorkers need, a breather, a respite. Even just a tiny garden patch of nature, ... can remind them of that! .... Amen! 💐 💕 🌳 💕👍

[@lornathomas1650]

Ms Ena setting down the chicken! Love the concept - green spaces providing Oxygen, nature for pleasure and rest. Real joy.

[@kosycat1]

This is exactly what the world needs. I'm so lucky that I have about 1/4 acre plot I took over in my parent's back yard in Baltimore County. It's my own little jungle

[@shad0wCh8ser]

You're telling me.. I'm getting addicted. Various family and extended family has always grown something and I never though about it. It was until there were contained Romaine lettuce scare for 3 months in a row that I decided that I'm going to start growing my salads supplies. Now its becoming a real problem. I've got 20 cucumber plants, 24 corn plant, & a lot more other things while eyeing fruit trees. LOL. The pandemic hit and I was trying to limit trips to the store by growing some more vegetables and now I'm growing more to give to family and friends. Also, I'm feeding all the birds in a 2 mile radius with my strawberries. They are unrelenting.

[@hscamzhscam177]

thanx to those 70s badass kids!

[@annelauterbach294]

Perfect!!!

[@ChristineJonah88]

I like this

[@jacpoy3416]

I wish more cities in the world will do the same

[@Zoza15]

We are doing this in The Netherlands, and probably going beyond of what Americans are doing, like green rooftops, greenwalls etc.

[@ritasrimustikasari]

Good idea to have a community garden in the village too.

[@lesjardinspartagesrakrouki1357]

Merci pour le partage l suscribe

[@lisah5784]

So the movie Green Card was based on this 🤔🤔🤔 Loved that 🎥

[@realityqueen3173]

Stop revealing these secrets. Cant New Yorkers have something of their own? Not everything needs to cater to tourists

[@hscamzhscam177]

green space NEEDS to guranteed by legislations

[@sunshinesun101]

The fact that there are more "community gardens" in New York than any other metropolis is NOT something to be proud off...Most people choose not to live on top of others and have their own garden.

[@tashikoweinstein435]

You know, Central Park is amazing until you find out that wealthy diverse communities of both Whites and POC, but mostly Wealthy Blacks Communities many former Slaves were kicked out in order to build it! And that Natural Habitats were also destroyed in the process as well! Great Legacy there Central Park. Great Legacy

[@silkwoodart]

Cry. Just cry over the things you can't control. Cry that they just weren't as WOKE back on the day as you are now. Cry every single time for the eggshells that must be broken to bake a cake. It's so big and WOKE of you to judge the people of the past with the self-righteous morals of today. But don't worry, years down the road you too will be judged by those in the future with the popular morals of that time, and you will be seen as just as low as those you judge from the past now. Being WOKE is stupid. WAKE UP!

[@silkwoodart]

If you care about having untarnished Legacies, do yourself a favor and change your last name to one that isn't a constant reminder of sexual harassment, abuse, assault, and extortion. You might see your last name as something great and to be proud of, but what some corrupt person of great power, wealth and prestige did to it by being a sexual predator, it just makes a person sick to even hear the name uttered or to even to read it in written form. How does it feel to be canceled, marginalized, or diminished by the same WOKE judgment you presented? You can't run from your name.

[@rosephoenix4634]

There are so many ways that at there is no enough trees flowers grass on your old neighborhood but the problem is that there is covered with concrete metal signs and the smell of sidewalks or the streets that it is unbelievable but you know what how comes that Manhattan it is the only ways that are of showing like this but what about from Brooklyn Queens Bronx they need to have a more tree small Grass more flowers more relaxed fun bicycle jogging walking Funtime playtime relaxing and specially that will take a picture it's not fair everyone because my head is getting popular more and more but what about all those orders Brooklyn Queens and Bronx including that Staten Island

[@livefromplanetearth]

💒💒💒

[@siebergirl23]

Hope the developers are not watching

[@jhf99991]

The reporter doesnt have a clue

[@firojmnalam6121]

USA MATA KI JAI

[@aghost5281]

India mata ki Jai!!

[@mainnevent515]

I wonder how big the rats are that roam that garden?

[@enak.mcpherson4667]

Not as big as you'd like 🤣! Really??

[@patricemarie2960]

That's macabre. When they eat all the marigolds .... worry! Celebrate these gardens! .... When the spirit of City America, become nothing more than a nasty drain, ... they'll be no more "neighborhood"cooping, no more gardens to plant!