Bartlett Park community garden

This week's gardening story is one that goes beyond the garden and into the community the -- park community garden serves as a way to get fresh vegetables. And get people in the area to know each other police band visited department part garden in Saint Petersburg and talked to the woman who helped get us started.

If you wanna you know combat global warming lose weight. Will it raise your property values reduce crime and you know lawyer cholesterol one ago. Get community garden and that's -- injury heal the brand helped do which she needed to Bartlett park for years ago she saw a vacant lots and saw opportunity. For two and a half years we've been. Working in this garden we've installed the fence with donated materials and all volunteer work. The lot is now -- allocation garden where members of the community garden have a small plot and they grow whatever they wanna grow there and everything that. Grows have all the produce is theirs to keep toward a traitor to share. While this summer is tough for veggies poker like this thrives in the heat during spring and does fall will have. Thirtieth warrior we hope this -- fifteenth. I'm active gardeners of course having fresh vegetables is a one aspect of this garden. But since it's a community garden it's also working to bring the community together certainly everyone who isn't houses you can see has here. Has -- into the garden has talked with us has. You know brought their kids at one point. Filled a brand his background -- community organizing -- people neat the community bonds. Being outside means you meet your neighbors means you know what's going on in the community. Which means there's more highs in the street people feeling more responsible for each other so just like the veggies to drill in the garden that garden is the seed that brings help to the area. Least -- and news Channel 8.

You may remember repairs -- Hamels then an eight year old who was shot in her home in -- with a loss did hit the community very hard so. Gardeners did what they do best they gardens they created parents gardens and six homes in that area including Paris -- home and the homes of some of her relatives.