On the issue of improving local neighborhoods, the findings were
considerably less ambiguous. During interviews, gardeners and stakeholders
described how some gardening areas had become focal points in their
neighborhoods. As focal points or "hubs," they often drew the support of
local groups-both informal and formal. in the following quotations,
stakeholders from the Kenosha youth and Pantry gardens, and the Waukesha
Youth garden comment on the community-building function of these
neighborhood hubs.