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Community Gardens Resource information update:
Cultivating Community: Principles and Practices for Community Gardening as a Community-Building Tool, by Karen Payne and Deborah Fryman.
$16.00. American Community Gardening Association, C/O Council on the
Environment of New York City, 51 Chambers Street, Suite 228, New York,
NY 10007; 877-275-2242; http://www.communitygarden.org/acga-store.php
Entrepreneurial Community Gardens: Growing Food, Skills, Jobs and Communities, 1999, by Gail Feenstra, Sharyl McGrew and David Campbell.
This study includes a comparative analysis of 27 entrepreneurial
gardens, five case studies and extensive appendices with urban
agriculture and gardening contacts, an annotated contact list of
entrepreneurial community gardens, business development resources and
funding opportunities for job creation and training in urban
agriculture. 106 pp. $10 plus $3.50 shipping and handling. (Publication
21587.) DANR Communication Services, 6701 San Pablo Avenue, 2nd Floor,
Oakland, California 94608-1239; 800-994-8849. danrcs@ucdavis.edu
Growing Communities Curriculum: Community Building and Organizational Development through Community Gardening, 2001, by Jeanette Abi-Nader, Kendall Dunnigan & Kristen Markley.
This book offers ten workshops covering community organizing,
leadership, fund-raising, communication plans, coalition-building,
diversity, and more. 352 pp. $40 plus $5 shipping and handling.
American Community Gardening Association, C/O Council on the
Environment of New York City, 51 Chambers Street, Suite 228, New York,
NY 10007; 877-275-2242. http://www.communitygarden.org/pubs/index.html
Growing Together: Community Gardening and Food Security, 1996, by Sustainable Food Center.
Covers all the details of establishing a community garden, for local
organizations, governments and individuals. 35 pp. Free. SFC, Attn:
"Garden Guide," 434 Bastrop Hwy, Austin, Texas 78741; 800-882-5592.
Other SFC publications include a complete "how-to" manual for starting
a farmers' market and Growing Smart, a compilation of Texas sustainable agriculture success stories. www.sustainablefoodcenter.org
Starting a Community Garden, from the American Community Gardening Association. Free. http://www.communitygarden.org/pubs/index.html#Starting
Urban Agriculture/Community Gardens
NATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS (U.S. & CANADA)
LOCAL ORGANIZATIONS
- Boston Natural Areas Network http://www.bostonnatural.org
- The City Farms Program (Just Food), New York City http://www.justfood.org
- City Farmer http://www.cityfarmer.org/
- Community Harvest http://www.communityharvestdc.org
- The Council on the Environment of New York City http://www.cenyc.org
- Denver Urban Gardens http://www.dug.org
- Des Moines Community Gardening Coalition (Des Moines Park and Recreation Dept.) http://www.botanicalcenter.com/com.html
- The Food Project, Boston & Lincoln, Mass. http://www.thefoodproject.org
- Gateway Greening Inc. http://www.gatewaygreening.org
- Green Guerillas, New York City http://www.greenguerillas.org
- GreenThumb (City of New York Parks & Recreation) http://www.greenthumbnyc.org
- Growing Gardens, Portland, OR http://www.growing-gardens.org
- Kansas City Center for Urban Agriculture http://www.kccua.org/
- Los Angeles Community Garden Council http://www.lacommunitygardens.org
- Neighborhood Gardens Association, Philadelphia http://www.ngalandtrust.org
- Nuestras Raices, Holyoke, Mass. http://www.nuestras-raices.org
- P-Patch Community Gardens, Seattle http://www.cityofseattle.net/neighborhoods/ppatch
- Parkway Partners, New Orleans http://www.parkwaypartners.com
- Philadelphia Green (Pennsylvania Horticultural Society) http://www.pennsylvaniahorticulturalsociety.org
- Seattle Tilth http://www.seattletilth.org
- SEEDS, Durham, N.C. http://www.seedsnc.org
- Urban Harvest, Houston http://www.urbanharvest.org
INDIVIDUAL PROJECTS
- CASA Garden (Care Assurance System for the Aging & Homebound), Huntsville, Al. http://www.casagarden.com
- Flint (Mi.) Urban Gardening & Land Use Committee (Salem Housing Comm. Development Corp.) http://www.salemhousing.org
- Food From the 'Hood, Los Angeles http://foodfromthehood.com
- Friends of Troy Gardens, Madison, Wis. http://www.madison.com/communities/troygdn
- The Garden Project, Lansing, Mi. http://www.lansingfoodbank.org/gardenproj.html
- God's Gang Chicago http://godsgang1.lecktronix.net
- Greensgrow Philadelphia Project http://www.greensgrow.org
- Homeless Garden Project, Santa Cruz, Cal. http://www.infopoint.com/sc/orgs/garden/
- Marra Farm (Fremont Public Association), Seattle http://www.fremontpublic.org/client/moremarra.html
- The People's Grocery, Oakland http://www.peoplesgrocery.org
- UBC Farm (University of British Columbia) http://www.agsci.ubc.ca/ubcfarm/
- Waltham Fields Community Farm, Waltham, Mass. http://www.communityfarms.org
RESOURCES & INFORMATION
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