More access to locally grown food helps reduce our community carbon footprint by decreasing trips to the grocery store.Gardeners take ownership of the space- caring for their own garden plots, maintaining the common areas in the garden, and participating in garden decisions.They offer safe spaces for recreation and healthy physical activity.They provide viable plots for community members who don’t otherwise have access to gardening space.Gardens increase public access to fresh nutritious food.The juxtaposition of open space and urban development is ever-present.Ĭommunity gardens bring many benefits to Salt Lake City. Trax, FrontRunner, and Union Pacific trains lumber by. In fact, continuous residential and commercial building is occurring in all directions. Converting a former brownfield to a parcel full of flourishing green plants is a powerful metaphor for this garden and the neighborhood itself which is becoming more and more residential. These are also important because the garden is on a former brownfield site- meaning the soil was contaminated with environmental toxins and later remediated. The site has raised garden beds that offer comfortable gardening for people of all ages. It’s located in the Gateway District at 46 North and 500 West, just west of the Gateway Mall. The Gateway Community Garden project came together after more than a year of hard work and planning, and through collaboration between multiple Salt Lake City departments, Rocky Mountain Power, and Wasatch Community Gardens. They are community spaces that give residents a chance to connect with their neighbors while enjoying the outdoors. Salt Lake’s community gardens are shared plots of land where people gather together to grow fresh veggies and flowers. We’d like to thank the many people and organizations who made this vision become a reality! A Unique Location On Tuesday, media representatives and residents joined Salt Lake City Mayor Jackie Biskupski, CEO of Rocky Mountain Power Cindy Crane, Director of Parks & Public Lands Kristin Riker, and the Wasatch Community Gardens Executive Director Ashley Patterson, for the celebration. Demand for open space and “room to grow” is paramount. Our newest garden is in the Gateway District which is quickly becoming the densest neighborhood in Utah. Community gardens create solutions for sustainable food production in an urban landscape. The program converts City-owned land into vegetable gardens that are managed by the non-profit Wasatch Community Gardens. This is the SEVENTH community garden created through the SLC’s Green City Growers program which began in 2013. Salt Lake City celebrated the opening of our newest community garden yesterday!
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