Community Gardens

Sutures are to wounds as community gardens are to blight, crime, and hunger.

To elaborate, if a person’s wound is left open, they are prone to infections, tearing of the skin, and drying and clotting. Therefore, a wise solution to this would be sutures, better known as stitches. This is similar to the usage of community gardens to solve blight (like wound infections), crime (similar to tearing skin), and starvation (identical to drying). My purpose in writing this essay is to explain how community gardens operate to solve these various problems. Just like sutures seal an incision from infections, community gardens prevent blight, or plant infections. Blight is started when fungus or bacteria enters a plant through the leaves, stem, or the

Therefore, community gardens avert crime. Those previous two sentences may sound as if they have no correlation, but as law.jrank.org claims, the most common motives for crime include greed, anger, jealousy, revenge, or pride. Such emotions are driven by social, psychological, and other problems. One of the main influences, as listed on this website, includes peer influence. For example, researchers claim when youth fail to comply with their demands and standards in society, they gain interest in groups like gangs, where criminal activity and antisociality allows them “street cred”--where they are finally accepted. To deter this turnout, we should unite them with others through community gardens where people are bound to converge and befriend others as they approach one another. As a result of this unification, crime decreases because the negative emotions that usually drive crime no longer need to be expressed. Moreover, gardening is known to be one the most common forms of meditation, another known way to relieve negative or destructive emotions. All in all, community gardens solve crime through stress relief and establishing harmonious relationships between

A community garden is a garden consisting of fruits, vegetables, and ornamental plants maintained usually by the general public. Furthermore, this means anyone and everyone is provided the opportunity to collect food for themselves from such urban gardens. Before community gardens, the problem of hunger and starvation is mainly found within the poor populations. Since the resources found in urban gardens are available to everyone including those who cannot afford meals, the problem of hunger decreases tremendously. Therefore, building public community gardens amends hunger as those famished utilize its produce. To tie this back to my analogy, sutures are noted induce a visible mark, a scar. The same concept applies for community gardens. Community gardens leave a noticeable impact on the citizenry by expunging blight through daily inspection, crime through unification, and hunger through provision of food to