Near the entrance of the Arlington Central Library, which I often visited when I lived in the city, is the Arlington Food Assistance Center (AFAC) Plot Against Hunger Vegetable Garden. Besides growing food to help those in need, this kind of plot can educate patrons and encourage them to grow vegetables.
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| Example planting and info card in the plot-- Purslane used to grow in my community garden plot. (Purslane is just below and behind the sign, not in the foreground.) 
While there, I saw mothers with their children pause to talk about what was growing. The garden was built along the side of the library that patrons pass on their way to and from parking. By the way--despite how grocery stores and some food processors label, sweet potatoes and yams are not the same. What is labeled as a yam in the US is nearly always a sweet potato.
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