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Create Community Garden Networks for Neighborhood Food Security

Individual community gardens serve limited people, yet networks of gardens could provide neighborhood-scale food security while building community connections. The challenge is coordinating community garden networks that maximize food production while strengthening social bonds. Barriers include land access, funding coordination, and management complexity. Without garden networks, communities remain food insecure while missing opportunities for local food production and community building. Successful garden networks could provide fresh food for entire neighborhoods while creating social capital, potentially demonstrating how communities can work together to address food security through cooperative food production.

Applied Sciences, Sustainable Farming, Urban Farming