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| In nearby urban lots, schoolyards, and lawns, we can help bring food gardening skills back into the local community as we replenish the soil and protect our Chesapeake Bay. |
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Why Now
"[W]e’re going to have to find ways of feeding people with a lot less fossil fuel use.... It means growing more food locally, for local consumption, it means more people being involved in the process of producing food, and it means growing food with fewer chemicals and fertilizers, pesticides and herbicides. Fortunately, we have developed information, knowledge, experience and techniques that are capable of growing food intensively, organically and ecologically. Those techniques, those methods desperately need to be expanded and replicated and made the basis for our national and global food system."
--Richard Heinberg,
Speech, "100 Million New Farmers"
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Benefits of a food garden
1. Affordable Food
2. Help the Chesapeake Bay
3. Improved nutrition
4. Eco-literacy classroom
5. Economic relocalization
6. Resource conservation
7. Therapeutic stress reduction
8. Neighborhood beautification
9. Community builder
10. Recreational hobby
11. Marketable skills
12. Celebratory event location
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