In this week's lab we visited a community garden located behind Centenary United Methodist Church that is sponsored by the Macon Roots Organization. One of its founders,Mark Vanderhoek, told us a little about the work that some of the residents of Macon as well as students of Mercer are doing in the garden. We learned about the advantages of having a community garden and what has to be considered in the planning of it. A community garden can be very helpful in the world of environmentalists and environmental scientists because gardening is environmentally friendly. More people raising crops helps to balance the negative effects of over population and pollution from factories if people mainly eat the food they grow. When the participants of a community garden finally find a garden site they must make sure the soil is not contaminated and that the land and soil they plan to use will be fertile enough to grow their crops. For this reason, it would probably be a good idea for one to know the twelve soil orders of the world and how to recognize them so he or she can determine whether he or she needs to build wooden boxes like those shown in the picture above to avoid contamination .
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