Co-operation and participation are essential for a community to grow and reach its goals. Therefore to bring the people in a neighbourhood together, I believe activities that can build relationships are essential. As I go about my life I try to keep an eye out for ideas that can bring people together under a common interest or out of curiosity. The idea of community gardens is one that is widely used throughout a number of different communities in a number of different countries around the world. By setting up these gardens in parks, schools and public areas, it will attract the most amount of attention and people can interact to try and keep them up to scratch.
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| Community gardens as big as this one need co-operation to succeed Source: Growingourown.com: 2011 |
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| Another example of a large community garden Source: Thelmagazine.com: 2007 |
Now I understand the concept of maintaing a garden may not be everyones cup of tea, but it can encourage some members of the community to participate. Essentially this just an idea to try and bring as many people together to interact and form relationships that can develop after the gardening. So this could be used as a meet and greet, and everyone could have a barbecue or a few beers afterwards to try and cement these relationships. As these relationships develop, there are obviously a number of flow on effects such as neighbourhood watch as people care more about each other, and therefor look out for members of their community
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