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How to handle unequal participation in community projects

Our small neighborhood group started a community garden three years ago with so much excitement, but now it's mostly just me and two other people doing all the work while everyone else enjoys the benefits. We're getting resentful but we don't know how to address it without seeming petty or destroying the whole project.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

A few people are carrying the burden for many, and the resulting resentment threatens to kill what they all originally loved.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Belonging and identity — who belongs here?”

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