Monday, March 3, 2008

Journal 4

Loretta Alexander
February 18, 2008
HUM 3500
Freeda Brunstad


Journal 4

Whose fault is it, our environmental issues, especially in regards to community gardens? In the U.S. and industrial/urban countries, we have moved into a very commodity oriented economy and culture where everything is dependent on earning money and therefore spend money. Miles says if you combine this with the inequalities of income and wealth in our country, you have a large portion of the population at the bottom that has very little land with little or no useable outdoor space. Combined this with a poor education system for those with the least, and poverty level wages that make it very difficult to find the time or place to think about growing your own food, or having the ability to grow it.
The Community Gardens Project does address these issues, by really creating a subsidized food production system that can’t survive in the Markey economy by itself – there are not sufficient profits in producing food for yourself. However, a piece of the project is to begin developing business opportunities for the gardeners that want to continue and expand. The Community Gardens Project main goal is to create access to the land, education, and materials that would normally not have that access due to the nature of our economic system – by seeking grants, government subsidized education, community contributions, and volunteers.

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