community garden

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Dictionary meaning

a shared green space in an urban or suburban area where individual plots or collective growing areas are managed by community members who raise fruits, vegetables, herbs, and flowers for personal consumption, neighbourhood sharing, or donation to food assistance programmes; community gardens serve multiple functions simultaneously: they produce fresh food in areas with limited grocery access, provide physical activity, create social bonds across age groups and cultural backgrounds, offer educational opportunities about food and ecology, beautify neglected urban spaces, and create micro-ecosystems that support urban biodiversity; community gardens have roots in the wartime victory garden movements of the twentieth century and have experienced a major revival since the 1970s as tools of urban food justice, neighbourhood revitalisation, and community mental health