Thurs July 2: Owen Sound & Grey-Bruce Area News
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Community gardens are usually filed under “nice to have”; as a place to grow tomatoes and meet the neighbours.
In this community contribution, Simona Freibergova, initiator of the Community Garden Network in Grey-Bruce, makes a bigger case: that these shared plots are climate infrastructure hiding in plain sight, quietly storing carbon, sheltering pollinators, shortening the distance our food travels, and knitting isolated people back together.
Her argument is that the most durable climate solutions may not be the largest ones. They might be the ones taking root down the street.
How and Why Community Gardens Offer Climate Solutions
by Simona Freibergova - As communities across Canada face climate change, rising food costs, biodiversity loss, and increasing social isolation, a simple yet powerful solution is taking root: community gardens.
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