The Communitarian Trap: Communitarian 'Common Ground' Community Gardens

Wednesday, April 24, 2013

Communitarian 'Common Ground' Community Gardens

In this slow transition to communitarianism, 'green space' is being developed into sustainable gardens, housing, and providing employment opportunities. This new trend has caused many cities and towns to change zoning rules to allow for community gardens in some unincorporated areas. Volusia County, in Florida, recently rezoned to allow for community gardens. How do we know that these garden spaces are actually communitarian? Although the naming of the gardens may be a coincidence, their similar name is very telling.

In the news article from Volusia County, the local correspondent pointed to Common Ground Farm in DeLand as an example of a successful community garden. The buzz words common ground are based on the title of Amitai Etzioni's book title, where he presents his case for communitarianism.

Let's take a look at some of the Common Ground Community Gardens across the country. Note the link provided under each of these photos. Each has started sustainability and unity as their purpose for existing.

Eugene, Oregon

North Richland Hills, TX, at Davis Memorial United Methodist Church

Kilauea, Hawaii

Memphis, TN

Boise, Idaho

Additional common threads running through all of these gardens is eating local and growing a greener world. The idea is to transition agriculture from predominantly unsustainable large farms into a system of community-owned sustainable collective gardens...and it's working. We can be assured that Transition Towns had something to do with this new trend.

Update 2/16/2014
A planned food forest for Seattle, WA.

"...and their shall be famines..." Matthew 24:7

Communitarianism Defined

Communitarianism is a global agenda toward world government. It uses a coalition of government, business, and church who shore up the social, moral, and political environment, while slowly robbing the freedom of the participants. A Communitarian adopts and advocates concepts such as a cooperative spirit of community, selfless commitment to community service, and the duty to work for “the common good.” It's tied from the U.N. directly to Agenda 21, the Third Way, Common Purpose, laws, community objectives, Total Quality Management, education, food delivery systems, and the collectivist thinking pattern of the global community. It uses the Hegelian Dialectic to create the synthesis needed to develop the New World Order - and ultimately the totalitarian utopia of the Elite's New Atlantis.