Part of a selection of "green" examples of community living from 'New Scientist' include this interesting use of community space for growing vegetables and other organic produce. The community have used all possible areas including schools, the town centre and even the cemetery to provide a freely available public larder. The fact that this initiative is made free to all within the community is what strikes me most. What better way to encourage the support of healthy eating and local food consumption rather than support of the super markets etc.
I could see this as something to be nurtured within each home and even provide an identity and certain responsibility between each area of town. Since the plan for this town is to use every free bit of space within it suggests the movement will at least visually suggest community spirit. The power of context comes to mind from "The Tipping Point" in the relation between environment, identity and behavior.
There is something in a community spirit that I enjoy. The particularly individualistic encouragement we receive today always seems like a good idea but I strongly feel there is great power in community even as an individual within a community. So, the communal use of space all over town could be the beginnings of an infectious identity that brings smaller communities more together again.
I wonder what other forms of identity can be used to this effect?
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