Community gardening toolkit : a resource for planning, enhancing and sustaining your community gardening project
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"A community garden serves different purposes for different people. For some, a community garden is a place to grow food, flowers and herbs in the company of friends and neighbors. For others, it's a place to reconnect with nature or get physical exercise. Some use community gardens because they lack adequate space at their house or apartment to have a garden. Others take part in community gardening to build or revitalize a sense of community among neighbors. Community gardens also take different shapes and forms. From a 50-by-50-foot church garden that supplies a local food pantry with fresh produce to a vacant city lot divided into plots and gardened by neighbors, community gardens reflect the needs and the desires of people directly involved in their management and upkeep. Because of these myriad differences, there are countless ways to organize and manage a community garden. Regardless of why people choose to take part in a community garden or how a garden is organized, the activity of gardening with others can be both rewarding and challenging. Our hope is that this guide will help you manage the challenges that come your way and experience the rewards of community gardening. This guide is intended to be a resource for gardeners, garden organizers, extension staff and other agency professionals who want to start a new community garden, enhance an existing garden or assist community members with starting and managing their own community garden." -- Introduction
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Provided for historical documentation only. Check Missouri Extension and Agricultural Experiment Station websites for current information.
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 4.0 License.
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 4.0 License.