Portable Community Gardens

By Vanessa Richins

A friend and I were talking about community gardens in our cities.

He mentioned one called the “People’s Portable Garden.”

I hadn’t heard of that one, so I looked it up and discovered a wonderful new concept.

Salt Lake City is working to improve neighborhoods by purchasing empty lots through the Salt Lake City Redevelopment Agency and having developers buy it from them and build there.

But as one official explained to City Weekly, “Sometimes, because we’re trying to create large properties, we sit on Read the rest of this entry »