Community gardens provide access to healthy landscapes, enhance our connections to outdoor environments, create strong social networks, increase self-sufficiency and local food security, and increase wellness. Gardening provides an affordable, nutritious food source. It cuts across social, economic, and racial barriers to bring together people of all ages and backgrounds.

Keene Community Garden Connections

Community Garden Connections (CGC) builds local capacity to grow food and enhances personal and communal well-being among those most impacted by climate change and other social, economic, and ecological injustices.

CGC’s education and outreach enhance community resilience through the installation and cooperative maintenance of 70+ raised garden beds alongside social service agencies and nonprofits. CGC offers safe places for community members to get outside, learn, and connect through gardening. Amidst Covid-19, CGC pivoted its programming to offer virtual workshops, educational materials, 150 “container gardens,” over 1,000 pounds of donated fresh produce, and take-home soup kits to the community.

Sites include: Harper Acres, Keene Recreation Center, in partnership with Early Sprouts, Keene Family YMCA and Monadnock Family Service Kids In-Shape Program, Keene Housing Authority Building Bridges Clubhouse Program, Keene Senior Center, RISE for Baby and Family, John H. Fuller Elementary School and Project KEEP, Monadnock Developmental Services, The Community Kitchen, Westmoreland Garden Project.
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USE OF ROUND UP:

To help educate those in the farming and gardening industries about ROUND UP, check out these two comprehensive guides produced by DrugWatch. The guides cover things like what it is used for, symptoms, and possible health risks. Please take a look:

drugwatch.com/roundup/glyphosate/
drugwatch.com/roundup/

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