Risorse Tagged: Community Gardens

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  1. 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...
    FPS FPI Community Gardens School gardens

  2. Setting up and running a school garden teaching toolkit

    School gardens can help to provide healthy school meals and generate income for school funds, but they are primarily a platform for learning - learning how to grow food for a healthy diet, improve the soil, protect the environment, market food for profit, enjoy garden food and, not least,...
    School gardens Community Gardens

  3. 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...
    Foodborne Illness School gardens Community Gardens

  4. 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 -...

    06/10/2010 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...
    Community Supporte... Community Gardens

  5. 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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  6. Garden in the City

    01/01/1987 The Garden in the City project is designed for 4-H clubs, schools and communites who have had little experience with gardening. The project begins in early February with indoor gardening activities and ends in June with an outdoor garden plot ready to harvest early vegetables and then plant a...
    Gardens-4-H Urban Gardening Community Gardens Community Resources

  7. Learn, Taste, Savor : Growing healthy generations

    In this issue of The Greening Review, ACGA highlights initiatives that some communities are implementing in their work to education about and to address childhood obesity in their neighborhoods.
    Open Spaces Community Gardens

  8. Home & Community Gardens Assessment Program Implementation Experience: The Tip of the Iceberg

    01/06/1990 This report reviews the operational experiences, problems and concerns encountered, and the lessons learned by both USAID and non-USAID assisted home and community gardening projects. 33 pages plus appendices 2 copies Report no. TA-2
    Horticulture Community Gardens Vegetable gardening

  9. Growing Together: Community Gardening and Food Security

    01/01/1996 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.
    Community Gardens Food Security Community Supporte...

  10. Cultivating Community Principles and Practices for Community Gardening as a Community-Building Tool

    01/01/2001 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...
    Community Development Community Gardens