Earlier this year, I was a lucky lottery winner in the new West Hollywood Community Garden. I'm a big fan of urban gardening and have been doing my best at container gardening; but was there's just so much you can grow in a container.
So one bright morning I sat in a room with a bunch of other people competing for one of 30 spots in the new garden. I was trying to cool my competitive air saying, that if I get it great, if not, I'll just expand the containers. However the turn-out was so low that everyone in the room got a plot!
Fast forward a month or so and I'm finally breaking ground and planting seeds. With every visit to the garden I get to know my fellow gardeners and we strike up conversations about plants, gardening, the neighborhood. It's a fun and relaxed community. But it's not limited to the garden!
I'm starting to see my fellow gardeners around the neighborhood. Just yesterday, while I was walking the dog, I ran into a gardener who I was having a conversation with just the night before. She lives less than a block away from my house. And just across the street is another gardener. What a small world!
Who would have thought I would get to know my neighbors by participating in the community garden. It just makes me love my community even more.
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