PHOENIX — Kenny Barrett kneels to show a visitor some highlights of a garden: flashy trout’s back lettuce, Red Russian kale, arugula, three types of beets and a popular Mediterranean vegetable.

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Bright yellow sunflowers tower over fences and turn bright faces to the sky throughout the patch of earth on Detroit’s east side officially known as the Georgia Street Community Collective ...

A new review published in Current Opinion in Psychology focuses on the potential of community gardens to support individual wellness and community resilience. The article was authored by Dr. Chiara ...

What are your job responsibilities? My main task is to manage the 4 Community Gardens that are a part of the Community Recreation Department. Three of these have individual garden plots utilized by ...

The Bay Area’s weather and soil make for excellent growing. It’s part of why we have ample access to fresh fruits and vegetables at local grocery stores and farmers markets. But even if you’re tempted ...

The Powelton Village community garden is located in an area facing development pressure, says Jenny Greenberg of Neighborhood Gardens Trust. Rudbeckia flowers in the Summer Winter Community Garden in ...

NORTH RIDGEVILLE, Ohio -- As Americans celebrated Older Adults Month this May with the national theme “Flip the Script,” there’s no better example of vitality, purpose and intergenerational impact ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WSMV) - An army of volunteers used shovels, rakes and clippers to pull weeds and dead plants from a small plot of dirt outside of Nella Frierson’s North Nashville home. Birds chirped ...