2024–25 · Roxbury
Open-access community gardens in neighborhoods
Create more community gardens open to all, where people can take a plant if they replace it, building community and green space access.
English title and summary written with AI from the resident's text.
The resident's idea, as submitted
The idea
There should be more community gardens in the neighborhood that all members have access to. Where if someone wants a plant they can grab one as log as they plant one to replace the one taken.
Who it helps and why
this build a sense of community and also access to green spaces that all people can have access to and not just those in the suburbs.
Details
- Cycle
- 2024–25
- Submitted
- August 2, 2024
- Neighborhood
- Roxbury
- Place
- Roxbury
- Portal category
- Sustainability
- How it was submitted
- City-sponsored workshop
- Submission language
- English
- Themes
- Parks, trees & climate
Themes grouped with AI from resident idea text.
The same need in other cycles
Ideas in Parks, trees & climate from Roxbury in the other cycles, up to 3 from each.
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2025–26 (3 matching)
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