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Pop over the River Taff past the Pontcanna fields and the equestrian stables and you might find an array of community gardens in one massive allotment.<\/p>\n

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The Riverside Community Garden is run by the Riverside Community Market Association. With the reality of environmental crises and the consequences of packaged food — not only in waste but in transportation fuel — more people in different pockets around the world are seeking locally sourced food at farmers’ markets, and in gardens at home. \"flowers_bees\"

One gardener, a Welsh-speaker who goes by Jackie, says she grew up on a farm in West Wales, so the love of being outside in the dirt and fresh air is in her blood. “You’re getting exercise;\u00a0you’re getting good food. Even though you’re in the middle of the city,\u00a0we’ve still got the natural environment around.”<\/p>\n

Jackie’s planted flowers for the bees, in the hopes\u00a0that they’ll get to the pollen before the frost overtakes the blossoms.<\/p>\n

These lots are separated by a patchwork of fencing that is living a second life: wire and wooden pallets line many of the gardens.<\/p>\n

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Community drives the project. The organization runs three farmers’ markets in Roath,\u00a0Rhiwbina, and Riverside each week.\u00a0There’s a stand near the entrance where gardeners can leave their excess produce for others to take — free.<\/p>\n

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The idea of community garden allotments isn’t new. \u2018Victory Gardens\u2019 were planted wherever they’d fit during World War II as a means to generate more food while the public food supply was stretched thin by the war effort.<\/p>\n

Today, the benefits continue to generate both morale and good, cheap food, though the realities of ongoing wars feel far away from home in the UK.<\/p>\n

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