Resources Tagged: Community Gardens

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  1. ECHO Community Garden Toolkit

    This booklet is a helpful resource to starting a community garden! with the goal of "Connecting community agriculture projects locally and globally"ECHO Community Garden Toolkitprovides information on Garden location, accessibility of water, plant and soil life, education and saftey, site...
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  2. Growing Communities Curriculum: Community Building and Organizational Development Through Community Gardening

    2001-01-20 “There has been a tremendous growth of community gardening, but often the focus is only on building the physical infrastructure of the gardens – raised beds, water systems, fencing. However, based on more than 40 years of experience, ACGA recognizes that there needs to be as much, if not more,...
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  3. Growing a Garden City: How Farmers, First Graders, Counselors, Troubled Teens, Foodies, a Homeless Shelter Chef, Single Mothers, and More Are Transforming Themselves and Their Neighborhoods Through the Intersection of Local Agriculture and Community -...

    2010-10-06 Growing a Garden Cityincludes: Fifteen first-person stories of personal and civic transformation from a range of individuals, including farmers and community garden members, a low-income senior and troubled teen, a foodie, a food bank officer, and many more Seven in-depth “How It Works” sections...
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  4. Cultivating Community Principles and Practices for Community Gardening as a Community-Building Tool

    2001-01-01 Cultivating Community explores some basic principles and values that underlie successful community empowerment programs of any kind, and illustrates how these principles have been applied to community gardens across the country. This paper is intended as a resource for individuals, organizations...
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  5. Growing Together: Community Gardening and Food Security

    1996-01-01 A step-by-step guide to organizing, building and maintaining a community garden to grow nutritious, great tasting food, provide opportunities for economic development and create a safe, comfortable place for neighbors to work and play.
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  6. Food Safety for School and Community Gardens

    Creating and maintaining community and school gardens has been identified as an effective strategy to increase healthy food awareness and consumption. Fresh fruit and vegetables have unfortunately been linked to over 450 outbreaks of foodborne illness in the U.S. since 1990. In commercial food...
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  7. Food Plant Solutions - Gardening Pamphlet

    What are the benefits of school and community gardens? The students at the schools enjoy the benefits of the plants they have grown as they are provided with a nutritious lunch at school. Initially children only tend the plants at school, but within a short time-frame they can be provided with...
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