D.I.Y Your Community Garden: Tropical Climates

The D.I.Y Your Community Garden book is essential reading for anyone looking for a guide to elevate their community garden and embark on their D.I.Y journey. It provides an abundance of resources that exhibit various designs and
methods to initiate a sustainable approach to maintaining your community garden. Although the book narrows down to the scope of tropical climates, this book offers a fresh global perspective and knowledge on green interventions, community engagement
projects and community gardens.

The focus of the book is in line with the global and local agendas, among others are improving our planet and combating climate change. Correspondingly, one of the impactful actions is empowering the community through social movement interventions that can reduce climate change impacts - the idea of community gardens.

Notable successes were seen through the impacts of community gardens on the well-being of people and their surroundings. Community garden initiatives have proven to improve the community’s social interaction and generally contribute topositive improvements in the well-being and mental health of the community at large. The authors highlight relevant and promising information on how community gardens can best be initiated through D.I.Y initiatives, especially in tropical climates. The book is not only meant to be read but also to be referred as a hands-on guide in the development of creative skills among the community members. The step-by-step processes of constructing D.I.Y innovations are deliberately geared toward learning skills. The variations of interventions proposed are designed to give solutions to the communities.

The authors take a unique approach to raising awareness of the community-building effort and psychosocial benefits of community gardens. Promoting actions that can lead to impactful actions in strengthening community ties and creating a sense of community pride, this book also conveys ideas so that all members of the community can participate and be involved in a more meaningful way. Its essence facilitates social interactions, leading to potential positive social changes within urban and rural
neighbourhoods.

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