broadly speaking, the united states does not have a problem with food production, but rather has a problem with food distribution. in fact, the united states has a problem with over-production - you produce too much food, and you waste tonnes if it every day. we waste a lot of food in canada, too, but at least we maintain some concept of supply management (although this is under constant threat).

in that sense, community gardening is kind of a solution without a problem, and i would consider it to belong to a list of upper class bourgeois liberal do-gooder policies that are more about feeling good about yourself than doing anything substantive.

it would be more worthwhile to fight for common ownership of the actual grain basket.