Gardening for the Hungry

Garden where foreclosed homes & a vacant lot used to be. (Detroit)

Community garden in the Projects, Detroit.

Foreclosed home... a Food bank facility and garden?

Detroit

Community garden, Detroit.

Community garden...Savannah,Ga.

Vacant lot now a garden. Detroit

Rooftop garden of Car dealership in Detroit.

Portland ,OR 

Newly completed White House garden.

If the 90 million gardeners in the country today planted an extra row of produce per garden, it would produce enough food to feed most of those that receive S.N.A.P Supplemental nutritional assistance program (aka Food Stamps). Gardeners usually produce more than they can eat. At the end of the season their's usually a surplus. And that surplus usually gets canned, given to family and friends,or just simply goes to waste. Planting an extra row in your garden could help feed those that are hungry.The extra row along with your usual extra produce will greatly help.You can just give the food away or donate the fresh produce to a food bank. In doing so you don't have the red tape and politics you would as when going through a government agency to so. Just give the food away ,it's just that simple. When planting that extra row or rows, you would want to plant vegetables that grow fast and over produce. Tomatoes,Yellow squash and Zucchini fast  and over produce. Lettuce, Cucumbers,Peppers,Herbs,Beans and Peas are also good for a over producing crop. Their are cities nation and worldwide that are starting community gardens where family and friends get together and plant a garden ,or two that everyone takes care of. Detroit  has built and is continuing to build community veggie gardens on property of foreclosed homes and vacant lots. The homeless can come by and eat along with others that mat need food to eat. Volunteers and those in the community organize and help with maintaining of such gardens.Detroit is just one of many major cities turning eyesores into gardens. With Atlanta having such a high foreclosure rate, individuals are taking the time to create community gardens on foreclosed land. The city of Portland, Oregon (considered by some to be the "mecca" for green living) has thirty different community garden sites. The blight of foreclosed homes and vacant lots which can a haven for crime is now replaced by the bounty of a community garden. Millions country and worldwide are now eating fresh produce, that were once going hungry. For more info. visit Ampleharvest.org