The Benefits of Community Gardens Featuring Amherst Park

In this Grow to Give video we will explore the benefits of community gardens while visiting a local Burlington community garden at Amherst Park.
There are a lot of reasons why community gardens are good for us! They are good for our health, resulting in improved physical activity, increased nutrition from fruit & vegetable intake as well as positive impacts to mental health. Fresh air and sunshine is good for us! They are also good for the environment, creating both food & habitat for our pollinator friends, reduces "food miles" as it is locally grown and is organic too - these are all good for the environment. Community gardens increases access to local food as well, creating opportunities for those without land and often include food security programming to support local families in need. Community gardens build COMMUNITY, where people can meet others, share tips and get to know others.
Thank you to the Government of Canada's Emergency Community Support Fund and the Burlington Foundation for making this years program possible!
Relevant Links
BurlingtonGreen: www.burlingtongreen.org/
Grow to Give page: www.burlingtongreen.org/servi...
City of Burlington's Community Garden page: www.burlington.ca/en/live-and...
Emergency Community Support Fund: www.canada.ca/en/services/ben...
Burlington Foundation: burlingtonfoundation.org/

[@rosemarymurray8256]

I would like to start up a community garden, there is a vacant land right next door from my job ,and I did ask who owns it and someone said some older gentlemen, I hope to find him one day ,😂

[@cankrl7152]

Süper 💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯

[@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!!

[@rawbsworld6604]

Lmao 😂🤣 she forgot to mention the egos, cliques & petty ass grassroots politics /anal openings there to feed their need to be alpha & pad their resume’ oh the joy of rude selfish people! Who are quick to point out the rules apply to you but not them! 😳🤦👍…

[@natethebluesman]

bro what are you talking about?

[@beeiz5656]

He must have been drinking😅