Clara's Thoughts

Our group project with a concentration on Fredericton is about making people decide to grow a garden with food instead of having a useless lawn. It is important to create conscience about this because of the bad use people give to garden space. Lawns only have grass, when they could actually have a contribution to the community and the family in the house if only plants and vegetables/fruits were there instead. The contribution to the community is that when a person consumes food from their own garden, they are not promoting the purchase of imported foods from other countries, which is bad for the economy and society. Fredericton has a lot of spaces dedicated only to lawns, so the proposal of getting people in here to get to know about planting food is a good step forward.

Hello my name is Clara. My part in the ‘Grow Food, Not Lawns’ group project was to create and administer the Facebook page for it. Every week, new helpful and practical posts about gardening tips and such were posted in order to give a social approach to learning about this matter. I posted a simple yet informative description of what the goal of the group was in the Facebook page and kept a nice layout of it for the page to have a good appeal for people of all ages. Having a Facebook page for our group is necessary because this media is what people use the most nowadays, and it is a very efficacious way of reaching people. Facebook makes it very easy to transmit our ideas for the Food Not Lawns group, and I was glad I could keep it updated.