In some cities public parks and open spaces are being changed into gardens where local residents can grow their own fruit and vegetables. Do the advantages of this outweigh the disadvantages?

Nowadays, a growing number of people are concerned about whether it is more beneficial 1to changethat changing public parks and open areas into gardens for local residents to grow their 2own producepersonal plants. 3Some people support that the positive effects are definitely more than 4the negativesnegative’s after changing, while others do not agree with that. From my perspective, I disagree with the former view.

First and foremost, changing public parks into growing 5areasarea for local people can effectively encourage individuals to grow plants like fruit and vegetables, which is useful for citizens to refresh their 6mindsmind and help them escape 7from the hustle and bustlefrom hustle and bustle of the cities. In addition, nowadays, people living in cities usually have 8intensedeep pressure 9due to expensive rentssince expensive home rent and the anxiety about unemployment. Furthermore, it is also difficult for people to have their own gardens due to limited living space. This is why growing plants is extremely crucial for individuals to be close to the nature and achieve a sense of accomplishment from this activity. If authorities do not provide local residents with more gardens for growing their own fruit and vegetables, people would likely have more mental and psychological issues.

By contrast, there are also plenty of issues after changing public parks and open spaces into gardens for local residents. For instance, if the government cannot separate these spaces clearly and fairly, people are more likely to have conflicts with others and thus become 11sources of instabilityinsecure factors for our society. Moreover, compared with planting flowers and trees in public parks, 12growing fruit and vegetables in personal gardens hasgrowing fruit and vegetables as personal gardens have no social functions for the whole 13citycities. Most people would lose the chance to 14enjoy nature and unwindenjoy the nature and their relaxation. 15Meanwhile, it is extremely necessary to highlight that in some big cities, there are a huge number of population, the public spaces cannot be enough for this changing. As a result, more local residents would neither have their own gardens 16nor have access to public parksnor the public parks to have a good rest. It is unsurprising that this changing can have more negative impacts than 17positive ones.positive.

In summary, although changing public spaces for local residents to grow their own fruit and vegetables has some advantages, I believe that social conflicts, limited spaces and functional requirements can also be the evidence that it would result in more negative effects.