Growing Community Seeds
When I biked past the 10th Street garden yesterday, I found Patrick busy reaping the rewards of his work. Patrick, along with neighbor Brian Clemons, had forgone watching the Bills game in order to prepare for the evening's dinner. While we walked around the garden grounds, Patrick pounced on a cucumber that he had originally missed. "Look at this," he proclaimed. "This is a Japanese cucumber that I grew from seeds that Kuni Sato (Kuni’s Sushi) brought back from his home in Japan." I looked at the cucumber and thought about the overall meaning of the garden. This had turned into a community success in so many ways. To think that while Kuni was in Japan he was thinking about a community garden on 10th Street in Buffalo - that thought summed up how important these efforts are on so many levels. And to know that Patrick was taking that cucumber home to dinner was the icing on the cake.
So often we overlook so many of these types of under-the-radar successes. From crack house to community garden to a temporary outdoor gallery - there are so many lessons to be learned when it comes to the ripple effects of a simple (yet complex) action of this sort.
Bottom photos: Works of art by Kevin Kegler - "Venus and the Cicada" in the garden and three paintings in the garden.
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We put a garden in our South Buffalo yard this year and it out grew all of our expectations! It was only a 10" x 10" and we got over 100 cucumbers, 50 jalapenos, 200 tomatoes 15 onions and 25 bell peppers. It only cost us $80 in supplies to start it up. Next year we're going to double the size and diversity and trade with my aunt and uncle that live 3 blocks away. I highly recomend doing this to anybody. It saves alot of grocery money and its very satisfying to grow your own food!
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