Festival Park Community Garden (Facebook)
Participants have a 4'x12' raised bed. They currently have 30 participants with a waiting list of 30 more. This garden was made possible through the support of Get Active Orlando and Commissioner Sheehan. Richard Powell, am the founder. Simply Living Institute's Tia Meer is garden consultant
Location:
on Robinson between Primrose and Crystal Lake in The Milk District
Hours of Operation:
Sunrise to sunset (the gate is locked fyi)
About Festival Park Community Garden
By Richard Powell, Founder
Festival Park Community Garden
When you look around at all of the so-called problems we face as a now world-wide society, they all stem from misunderstanding. We destroy the environment because we don't understand it. We destroy each other in the form of wars because we don't understand each other. Misunderstanding leads to a disconnection.
It is this fundamental problem of a core level misunderstanding that a community garden addresses. We begin to spend time with our hands in the dirt as we learn to understand the structure of the soil.
We also begin to spend time with one another where we strengthen our understanding of those around us. At every level our community garden is creating a reconnection. Additionally, individuals are able to have an immediate access to the food that they grow, something that not only creates a feeling of fulfillment but something that also helps to make our society more sustainable and more resilient to external issues.
Organic food may be expensive, but seeds are cheap.
Healing is the true focus of our time. My intent on starting the Festival Park Community Garden was to be able to create a space where this ever-crucial healing can take place, to strengthen those self-same bonds between us and the Earth, one another, and ultimately ourselves.