Eleven of Brooklyn’s lush community gardens were renovated and expanded this year, the city’s Department of Parks and Recreation announced last week, receiving new supplies, tools, and more in an effort to make the gardens more accessible and productive for the communities they serve. 

The borough is home to more than 200 such community gardens — in the warmer months, they overflow with flowers and veggies grown by local stewards. In nabes where most people don’t have their own private outdoor space, those gardens give residents easy access to green space, freshly-grown prod…….

CINCINNATI (CINCINNATI ENQUIRER) – If you ever needed some know-how on gardening, Denny McKeown was your guy.

McKeown was known to many from his Saturday morning radio program, “The Denny McKeown Gardening Show,” and from his Blue Ash business, Denny McKeown’s Bloomin Garden Centre and Landscape.

He died Sunday at age 81 according to our media partners at the Cincinnati Enquirer. His show was syndicated across the Midwest, but back home McKeown was always known as Cincinnati’s garden guru…….

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