I was gonna say, how many of those "community gardens" work for more than, say, a week?
They tried that here on some county property up town....

I swear this is the truth. I was by the garden often as it was near the junior league soccer/baseball/football fields. Saw maybe 2 or 3 old black women out there in the hot sun planting and working the garden that first year. BUT WHEN the stuff was producing, the community showed up and was swiping everything in sight. Broke the tomato plants down, pulled up the bean/pea vines...just made a damn mess.
They have done it since but the city cops watch it closely and if anyone is in the garden, day or night, they have to produce an identity card that shows they have a right to be in the garden and which section they're allowed in.
ETA: That area of town was a nice section of town 50 years ago when I was in high school...lot of friends in that section. It's all black now. The sports fields are nextdoor to that section. When I was at a soccer or baseball game in that area the last few years, I never saw a game that I didn't hear at least one gun shot or more while there for a game.