Essay On Community Garden

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If I were ever given the opportunity to devote an entire year to community service, I believe I would start a new community garden here in Miami-Dade County. My reasons for my choice of doing a community garden include fighting food insecurity and promoting healthy living. My choice of location is due partly to needs of the populace, my knowledge of the area in which I work, and the support I would receive from family and friends. Whatever project or service I volunteer for will always be determined by the cause and effectiveness of what I do. In other words, I choose to do a community garden because believe that this will truly help people. First off, I would like to elaborate on why I decided to do a community garden. Personally, I am a huge advocate for anything from projects to lifestyle that is good for the earth and good for the body. The garden is a wonderful combination of both with an additional purpose to fight food insecurity. It uses resources we, mostly, already have to solve a problem, which is very green. It also promotes healthy eating …show more content…
In America, starvation is not an issue. We are one of the wealthiest countries in the world, so the large majority of us don’t starve to death, not like in other countries, but we have what we call “food insecurity.” Food insecurity is when you may be able to afford food from time to time, but food is not consistent. According to map.feedingamerica.org, a 2015 map-chart says that Florida had a 15.1% food insecurity rate (about 3 in 20 people) that left about 3,05,280 people food insecure and 73% of those people were eligible for SNAP and other nutrition programs. The map-chart also says that the average meal cost was $3.11 and cheatsheet.com says florida had the 5th highest meal costs in the U.S. The projected amount that it would cost to eliminate food insecurity was $1,702,052,000, which was second to only Texas at just over 2

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