Community Gardens - on the Green Belt

This is a quick post in response to the issue of starting community gardens in Hermosa Beach. I think it is a great idea. 

To me, the most obvious place for a community garden would be the Green Belt. What is more green than a Community Garden? Not on the path in the center of course, but in place of some of the acres and acres of icicle plants that are currently there. Clearly parts of the green belt are too densely treed for an effective garden requiring sun, but other parts have no trees at all. I would not miss 10 acres of icicle plants in exchange for hundreds of garden plots. And the Green Belt stretches through the whole town. Using some of the icicle plant areas in addition to unused corners of other parks would seem like a good way to lose nothing and gain a great deal.

I hope that Jeff Duclos, Dency Nelson, Kris Lauritson and the others currently working on this project will consider this option if they haven't already.

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