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the community garden is a great idea...it fosters face-to-face community building around a cultural universal...food...it provides a tool for learning about what food was before processed industrial food...it's an oasis in a food desert...a place to re-connect with natural cycles in a non-virtual environment...it is environment and there is life out there..the garlic is up including the early red italian...the winter rye is green and the winter wheat is coming out of dormancy..all signs that the long winter is abating and change is in the air...nothing is static in life and that includes the garden...but the changes will be even more dramatic as this season progresses...the iu northwest community garden is about to move to more spacious quarters and i am inclined to think the personality change that engenders will be exciting, impressive, and more inclusive...a diverse and organic community built around a diverse population of organically grown food plants...