A citywide Community Garden Policy released this week helps identify available park locations where Long Beach residents and organizations can establish a community garden.
The policy lists a goal to establish community gardens in every park 5 acres or larger by 2020.
Phil Hester, director of the Parks, Recreation and Marine Department, stated in a prepared comment: "This Community Gardening Policy encourages gardening as a healthy, sustainable activity, and residents now have expanded parks' resources identified for community gardening."
The Community Garden Policy includes community garden terms and conditions and is accompanied by a simple one-page application for Long Beach organizations.
The application is available at www.sustainablelb.com, and will be posted at www.longbeach.gov/park.
Long Beach is ranked No. 3 for the amount of community garden plots per capita, according to city officials, citing the Trust for Public Land in 2009.
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Joe Segura, a mild-mannered reporter for a major metropolitan newspaper, has covered Gotham City, er Long Beach, for 34 years. During his very, very long -- endless -- tenure, he's covered almost every beat, and he was the main writer for BeachWeek, which focused on life and lifestyles of the shoreline communities from downtown Long Beach to the Huntington Beach pier.
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