With the first day of spring right around the corner, many are looking to begin planting vegetables alongside their neighbours in Peterborough’s many community gardens.

“People are just dying to get their hands dirty again,” said Paula Anderson from Peterborough Green-Up and the Peterborough Community Garden Network. “There’s a growing movement right now of people just getting together in a community garden and enjoying the bounty together.”

Recently the Peterborough Community Garden Network received about $60,000 in funding from the Ontario Trillium Foundation to support the network’s development, she said.

That money allows the group to start planning to make sure all the area’s community gardens are successful this season, she said.

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From the Peterborough Examiner- March 3, 2010