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As we start planning for this season's community gardens, maybe we can also scheme and integrate other uses of this community space....

Like community peace gardens? This could be interpreted really broadly, but the main idea is a community garden that promotes a Culture of Peace.

http://www.iipt.org/globalsummit/peaceparks.html

http://peace.maripo.com/p_gardens.htm

Here's an example of an interesting initiative coming out of some communities in the Florida Keys:

http://www.keystopeace.com/id57.html

Imagine gardens for food security, good old wholesome time outdoors in the dirt, soil and biodiversity, citizen science, community talks, intergenerational meeting places for sharing knowledge.....buildings blocks for community resilience, enviro-security and peace.

http://www.cultureofpeace.org/

http://cpnn-world.org/

http://portal.unesco.org/en/ev.php-URL_ID=37083&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC...

It could also be a way of contributing to ecological corridors and connectivity through urban greenspaces.  Maybe community peace gardens and community peace parks could be strategically developed throughout the city and surrounding region to correspond with natural systems (possibly a mapping project for the Bioregional group?).  Start small, think big?

Thoughts?

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