Placing A Community Garden

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If I were the mayor of the city Marlborough, I would add a community garden to our city in hopes of fixing the current issue of not enough teen involvement in our city. I think a community garden would be really beneficial to our community, especially for the youth in it. A community garden is easy to build and needs little to no funding from the city. Placing a community garden in our city would instil hard work, responsibility, organization, equality, and community pride in Marlborough’s youth.
If we were to build this garden I would suggest putting it next to the newly built Council on Aging, senior center. I would also have the garden run by the Marlborough High School students. I think by having the garden close to the senior center it

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