Maybe the thinking is that this may keep these younger kids from getting into trouble, however I'm thinking there's probably more pressing issues the community could get involved with.

 

 

February 24, 2012

 

Camden, NJ is a Great Testament to the Success of Urban Community Gardening and Education

 

for immediate release

 

 

 

 

According to the USDA Food Desert Locator, Camden, NJ, was found as one of the Top 9 American Food Deserts. Incredibly, the entire city of Camden, NJ with 80,000 residents, has only one full-service supermarket and is missing an adequate transportation system. Due to Camden’s extreme situation as an impoverished “food desert”, the Camden City Garden Club has immensely expanded their community gardening program (tripling the number of community gardens throughout the city in last 3 years). The University of Pennsylvania’s Center for Public Health Initiatives (CPHI) funded a research study of urban community gardens, finding “Camden, NJ has perhaps the fastest growing community gardens program in the country”. All these gardens are administered by CCGC/CCG and since this study was completed, Camden has added more than 50 community gardens. The University Penn Study Report found that “community gardening is a viable food security strategy in the City of Camden”.

 

 

 

In case you were like me and never heard of that term, here you go. Gee, I wonder why Camden City is a food desert. Go figure.

 

 

A food desert is any area in the industrialized world where healthful, affordable food is difficult to obtain. Food deserts are prevalent in rural as well as urban areas and are most prevalent in low-socioeconomic minority communities. They are associated with a variety of diet-related health problems.^[1] Food deserts are also linked with supermarket shortage.

Teach a man to plant...

Teach a man to build a fire and he's warm for a day, set a man on fire and he's warm the rest of his life.

Maybe if people weren't afraid o getting robbed they would open up more market....

 

Just a thought.

Maybe if people weren't afraid o getting robbed they would open up more market....

 

Just a thought.

 

 

That was pretty much my point.