Community Gardens in Highbridge

Community gardens do a lot of good for our neighborhoods! They help us get fresh food, stay healthy, and make our communities more sustainable. These gardens are run by people in the neighborhood, and they help clean the air, make sure everyone has access to green spaces, provide healthy food, offer chances to learn new things, and create safe places in all kinds of neighborhoods. Usually, neighbors get together to create and take care of these gardens, turning empty or unused spaces into beautiful and productive areas. Growing food in the city has become a big part of keeping us physically healthy, helping the local economy, protecting the environment, and celebrating our cultures. We know that community gardens are important to New Yorkers, but we don't hear as much about the ones in the Bronx. The Bronx has around 175 community gardens. Recently, I went on a tour of farms and gardens in the Bronx and visited some great community gardens in the Highbridge area, which is in the middle-west part of the Bronx. This story is about one of those gardens, La Isla Youth Garden, and the neighborhood around it. We'll look at how it started, the people involved, and especially how they've managed to keep going in a neighborhood that's changing really quickly.