The purpose of this study is to demonstrate the important and vital role that community gardens play in urban poor neighborhoods and their power in neighborhood transformation and renewal. They have become irreplaceable in the influence they have on cities and their residents. Community gardens give people a chance to connect with the environment when they otherwise might not have been able to. When this connection happens and people understand more about the environment, they are more likely to be environmentally aware and make environmentally smart choices, like recycling, producing less waste, driving less, and valuing the importance of wilderness and stable and natural ecosystems. People living with community gardens might vote for an environmentally friendly candidate, or lobby for environmental improvements locally, nationally, and globally. Therefore, community gardening is one of the most important means of non-traditional environmental education. Most people do not receive environmental education in a classroom setting, but in practice with the earth, and gardening is one of the best ways to achieve this. It brings peace of mind and strength to the earth.

Using these experiences and my study as an environmentally studies major, I feel that community gardening and urban environmental education is vital to a clean environment in the future. Hopefully, this study will further emphasize this and reiterate the immeasurable positive influences that gardens and connection with the environment in general have on people living in cities.