{"id":12195,"date":"2015-02-14T16:54:16","date_gmt":"2015-02-14T16:54:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greensideup.ie\/?p=12195"},"modified":"2024-03-12T16:34:58","modified_gmt":"2024-03-12T16:34:58","slug":"start-up-essentials-for-community-gardens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greensideup.ie\/start-up-essentials-for-community-gardens\/","title":{"rendered":"Start Up Essentials for Community Gardens"},"content":{"rendered":"
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I’ve written several articles about community gardens<\/a>\u00a0– the benefits and how to’s –\u00a0but once you have your plot of land and an interested bunch of people who want to grow food, it’s Willing or Not So Willing Volunteers?<\/strong><\/p>\n If the initial core group are willing volunteers, you may get away with asking them to bring their own equipment until funds have developed. However, if you’re a well-meaning organisation who are trying to encourage low-income families to start growing their own in community gardens, even if your ethos is one of upcycling and recycling, you’ll need to provide some basic kit. Your potential gardeners might not have the equipment or the funds to buy the tools, seeds or gloves that will start them on the road to growing more of their own food and without it, will soon lose interest.<\/p>\n The Community Garden Twitter & Facebook pages<\/a>\u00a0recently received the following query which prompted me to write this post, sharing some of\u00a0my experiences from projects I’ve worked with.<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Do I Need To Harvest Water or Have An Electricity Supply?<\/strong><\/p>\nimportant<\/del>\u00a0vital, to provide some basic equipment for the gardeners and tutors to use. Without a few tools the group will struggle and far from the success you envisaged at the beginning of the project, you could find it falters and folds.<\/p>\n