History
The American Community Gardening Association was founded in 1979. To learn more about our formation, please check out this article reprinted from our 25th Anniversary Greening Review.
The American Community Gardening Association recognizes that the diversity of its board, staff and communities is a source of strength and knowledge essential to its development as an organization. In principle and in practice, the ACGA values and seeks a diverse membership. There shall be no barriers to full participation in this organization on the basis of gender, race, religion, age, sex, color, disability, sexual orientation, socio-economic status, language, level of education, geography, national or ethnic origin.
To download the full text of our inclusiveness policy, please click below.
Inclusiveness-policy-final.pdf