community gardens

Imagine a community-based initiative that helps to improve nutrition for children and low-income families, provides proven therapeutic benefit for people with a wide variety of physical and cognitive impairments, creates strong connections between people of different ages, from different economic and cultural backgrounds, and improves the environment both aesthetically and ecologically. A number of community workers and volunteers in the sprawling Municipality of Chatham-Kent, in Southwestern Ontario, are doing more than imagining.