Community gardening provides neighbors with exercise, stress relief, a sense of well-being and opportunities for family time and learning new skills.

The New Haven Land Trust provides technical assistance and supplies to more than 50 community gardens.

Its Growing Entrepreneurs Program teaches farming, carpentry and job skills to 13 New Haven teenagers who are paid year-round: Part time during the academic year and full time over the summer. The teenagers start their own food-related entrepreneurial businesses, grow food to sell to local restaurants and work on the land trust’s sites.