Hayward Community Garden - Food intensive

On Tuesday after visiting the high school garden, we made a stop just down the road at the Hayward Community Gardens. The garden is extensive and is inside a track of land owned by a power company. Though it runs under power lines, they are masked by the lush expanse of foliage and vegetation. One notable feature of the garden is the diversity of the gardeners from all over the globe, including Africa, the Middle East, and South America. Wandering around the garden one finds plants from all over the world and can see foreign and sometimes exotic techniques like the miniature rice-paddy plot cultivated by an Afghani gardener. This garden is a great example of how tracks of unused industrial land can be put to a great use for the benefit of communities and people who might otherwise have difficulty feeding themselves.