At community gardens, you’ll find far more than just a place to grow some food. Vegetable gardening is a proactive Practice. Peter likes to emphasize that word Practice – the same one used to describe the Practice of meditation. Gardening is stress relief, fresh air, exercise, and interconnection with the natural world.
Vegetable gardening brings forth productivity. It is a way of being actively engaged in solutions to major world problems. Vegetable gardening – particularly when done together as a community – can be tremendously healing, particularly in these turbulent times.
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