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Proof That Community Gardens Lower Crime Rates

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Among the many befits of having or starting a community garden in your area, crime prevention is one feature that can easily be over-looked. "It’s been a crime prevention tool, we work with the police officers so children come down and they look in and ask questions, so our neighbors are talking to each other now more too," said Ezekiel Amador. As we have posted about here before, community gardens are also a great way to make sure you know what you're eating, stay healthy, get off the Big Grocery food grid, and help your community. Here is a video about one community that benefited in many ways from a community garden.

RELATED: 10 Easy Steps For Starting A Community Garden

After the latest and ongoing March Against Monsanto protests there has been an even greater awakening to the adverse effects of GMOs and pesticides on human and environmental health. Many people who would love to grow their own food are forced to shop at grocery stores due to the fact that they simply have no space to grow their own gardens. If you must buy your food from someone else, it's best to try to buy locally grown food to ensure that you can have a better idea of what's in it.

Here is a great source to find locally grown food near you: http://eatlocalgrown.com

There are a few option for people that would like to grow their own food but don't have the space: one is community gardening. The video posted below is a short introduction with the 10 basics steps it takes to get a community garden started in your neighborhood.

Red fruits and vegetables

Here are some great foods that promote your health and all happen to be the same color!

Is this color missing from your refrigerator? Time to change that!

Strawberries: Strawberries help to boost the immune system, protect against cataracts, fight cancer, naturally lower cholesterol, promote healthy bones, slow aging, reduce inflammation, and promote healthy eyes.

Raspberries: Raspberries fight cancer, promote eye health, naturally lower blood pressure, help to remove toxins from the body, naturally reduce inflammation, and help to produce red blood cells.

Tomatoes: Tomatoes help promote healthy skin and hair, naturally prevent heart disease, reduce inflammation, promote lung health, fight and prevent cancer, promote eye health, help prevent kidney disease, and promote healthy digestive system function.

Apples: Apples can help to naturally treat asthma, prevent Alzheimer's disease, promote weight loss, strengthen and protect bones, manage diabetes, and prevent breast cancer.

Watermelon: Watermelons help to fight and prevent infection, promote kidney health, help with weight loss, regulate blood pressure, promote cardiovascular health, prevent cancer, and promote healthy sexual function.

Radishes: Radishes clean out the kidneys, promote healthy digestion, prevent heart disease, regulate blood pressure, remove toxins from the body, prevent the formation of cancer, and naturally relieves respiratory congestion.

Cranberries: Cranberries help to treat skin conditions, promote dental health, fight cancer, boost brain activity and mood, treat and prevent kidney and bladder problems, boost the immune system, naturally prevent heart disease, and slow aging.

Red cabbage: Red cabbage helps to prevent Alzheimer's disease, promotes healthy digestive system function, treats ulcers, fights and prevents cancers, prevents osteoporosis, promotes healthy skin, slows aging, and boosts the immune system.

Beets: Beets help to prevent certain types of cancer, cleanse the liver, enhance mood, purify the blood, naturally boost energy, promote respiratory health, promote prenatal health, protect against cataracts, support healthy blood vessels, and boosts cardiovascular health.

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