Links
- Community Garden Start Up Resources
- Community Gardening Studies
- Gardening with Children
- Gardening with Seniors and the Disabled
- Rooftop Garden Resources
- General Gardening & Horticultural Information
- Farmers' Markets
- Food Security
- Media
- Open Land Preservation
- Safety
- Sustainable Communities
- Miscellaneous (Funding, etc.)
- Other Sources of Information
I. Community Garden Start Up Resources
- Brownfield Remediation Solutions for Urban Agriculture.
- City Farmer: the most comprehensive site on the internet about urban agriculture, community gardening and sustainable agriculture.
- Community Garden Start-Up Guide: from the Common Ground program of University of California Cooperative Extension in Los Angeles [PDF]
- Creating Community Gardens, by Dorothy Johnson, Executive Director, & Rick Bonlender, MN Green Coordinator, Minnesota State Horticultural Society Minnesota State Horticultural Society, 1970 Folwell Avenue, #161, Saint Paul, Minnesota 55108
- How Does Our Garden Grow? A Guide to Community Garden Success, an extensive manual on garden start up by ACGA Board member Laura Berman
- University of Missouri Extension "Community Gardening Toolkit"
- Urban Community Gardens: Includes sections on benefits, getting started, organizations, funding, articles & publications, and gardens.
- Urban Gardening Program: The Coordinator's Book,The Pennsylvania State University Cooperative Extension Service
- A Handbook of Community Gardening by Boston Urban Gardeners, edited by Susan Naimark Published in 1982 by Charles Scribner's Sons, New York ISBN 0-684-17466-9 — Out of print - may be available through used booksellers
II. Community Gardening and Greening Studies
Benefits of Adult Education in Community Gardens As Perceived by Community Garden Educators - Sara Eve Spence, University of Nebraska-Lincoln (PDF Format)- Community Development through Gardening: State and Local Policies Transforming Urban Open Space by Jane E. Schukoske. A PDF file that can be downloaded from NYU website.
- Comprehensive Plans, Zoning Regulations, Open Space Policies and Goals Concerning Community Gardens and Open Green Space from the Cities of Seattle, Berkeley, Boston, and Chicago- Information compiled by ACGA Member Lenny Librizzi for the GreenThumb Grow Together Workshop “Lessons From Community Gardening Programs In Other Cities “ given March 20, 1999.
- Green Streets, Not Mean Streets, Frances E. Kuo, and William C. Sullivan. In an inner city neighborhood, the greener the residence the lower the crime rates.This is one of several studies on the relationships between people and plants in urban setting. Others include"Girls and Greenery", "Kids and Concentration", "Neighbors and nature", "Plants and Poverty" and Vegetation and Violence". All are available from this same link.
- Involving Children In Children's Gardens Farm In The City St. Paul, Minnesota by ACGA Board member Anna Wasescha and Karla Ness
- National Community Garden Survey 1996, ACGA Monograph by Suzanne Monroe-Santos
- A Survey of Community Gardens in Upstate New York: Implications for Health Promotion and Community Development by Donna Armstrong Ph.D.First Published in Health and Place 2000;6(4):319-327
- The Whitmire Study - Gateway Greening
- Community Greening Review:
- Greening Review 2009: The Case for a Community Greening Research Agenda (PDF)
- Greening Review 2003: Urban Green Infrastructure (PDF)
- Greening Review 2002: Thinking About Soil and Water (PDF)
- Greening Review 2000: Making Policy - Steps Beyond the Physical Garden (PDF)
- Greening Review 1999: Greening in the Schoolyard (PDF)
III. Gardening with Children
Children's Garden in Brazil, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil- Civic Garden Center's Youth Education Program, Cincinnati
- The Classroom Victory Garden Project was created by the National World War II Museum and includes cross-curricular lessons that teach students not only about World War II and the role of victory gardens, but also about health, science, and citizenship.
- Edible Schoolyard, Alice Waters started it all here
- Evergreen's Learning Grounds, Students, teachers and neighbours working to transform concrete school grounds into natural 'outdoor classrooms'
- Farm in the City, children's gardening program in St. Paul
- GardenABCs.com, the learning garden forum for educators, parents & community
- Garden Launch Pad (Kids), a huge page of curriculum and activity links
- Garden Mosaics, a fascinating research program involving children
- Gardening With Kids, how to tips
- Green Education Network
- Green Thumbs/Growing Things, children's gardening program in Toronto
- Involving Children In Children's Gardens Farm In The City St. Paul, Minnesota by ACGA Board member Anna Wasescha, Ph.D and Karla Ness, MFA
- Junior Master Gardening Program
- Kids Gardening, National Gardening Association
- KinderGardening, School Gardens
- Life Lab Science Program
Michigan 4-H Children's Garden at MSU, an inspired garden for children- Plant the Seeds of Greatness
- School Garden listserve's archives, listserve is hosted by Mallorn, same as the ACGA's
- School Gardening Resources
- School Gardens, City Farmer's extraordinary links
- School Gardens, on the Journey to Forever website
- School Gardens, The School Gardens Coalition, Providence RI
- School Gardens, Texas A & M's excellent resource
- School Gardens, University of California Cooperative Extension - San Diego County
- School Gardens, University of Florida Agricultural Extension
- Seeds of Change Garden
- Youth Gardening in Maricopa County, Arizona
- Wisconsin Fast Plants
IV. Gardening with Seniors and People with Disabilites
- Accessible Gardening, Bring Mother Earth Within Reach by Lori Hungate
- The American Horticultural Society
- Gardening With Disabled Individuals
- Gardening With the Elderly, Ohio State University Extension Fact Sheet
- Horticultural Therapy Chicago Botanic Garden Horticultural Therapy Services
- Diabetes and Gardening
V. Rooftop Gardening Resources
- Annex Organics' Rooftop Farming Business
- Rooftops and Urban Agriculture, City Farmer's resource list
- Rooftop Gardens, from City Farmer
- Rooftop Gardening in St. Petersburg, Russia
- Rooftop Resource, by Monica Kuhn
- Urban Agriculture:The Potential of Rooftop Gardening
- Wading Pool Gardens
VI. General Gardening and Horticultural Information
Aggie Horticulture: Plant Answers - Agricultural Weed Gallery -excellent guide to common weeds of Eastern N.A. with full color photos
- Arthur's Vegetable Clip Art
- Chicago Master Gardeners Community Gardens
- Composting Basics: City of Toronto's excellent fact sheets
- Detroit Agricultural Network
- Ecology Action
- Edible Landscaping and Gardening
- Environmentally Responsible Gardening and Landscaping in the Low Desert
- Fabulous Gardening Links Annotated list of good gardening links
- Garden Gate:The Teaching Garden
- Garden Guides
- Garden.org
- Garden Web forums- online forums on every gardening topic
- Gardenline: Vegetable fact sheets from U of Sask.
- Gardening Launch Pad
- Greenhouse Gardening
- Greennet - Chicago's Greening Network
- Heirloom Gardener's Assistant
- Homestead Harvest
- ICanGarden
- ISU Entomology Image Gallery: Name that bug
- Journey to Forever: a wonderful, extensive website with tons of great information on urban ag, organics, composting, sustainable practices, children's projects.... Make sure to check out the Small Farms Library
- National Gardening Association
- Organic Agriculture Information
- Organic Gardening: Basics
- Path To Freedom: A self-sufficient lifestyle in an urban environment
- RecGarden Ecosystems- garden usenet with ecological perspective
- Seattle Tilth: Organic Gardening, Composting, Urban Ecology
- SEEDS: South Eastern Efforts Developing Sustainable Spaces, Inc.
- TerraViva Organics
- The Garden Link
- The Openlands Project
- U of Maryland Plant Diagnostic Website
- U of Tennessee Greenhouse Building Plans
- U of Tennessee Machinery and Supply Storage Plans
- Urban Greening
- Watch Your Garden Grow
- Austin Farmers Market, Austin, Texas
- Chicago Community Gardeners Farmers Market
- Community Food Security Coalition
- FoodShare Toronto
- Organics for All
- Plant a Row For the Hungry USA
- Plant A Row / Grow a Row Canada
- Regional Food Bank of Oklahoma
- Sustainable Food Center Austin, Texas
- Toronto Food Policy Council
- USDA Nutrition
- USDA's Food Security Resources
- Why Hunger
- Why Hunger - Newsletters
IX. Media
- A Brief History of Grassroots Greening in NYC - Sarah Ferguson
- Jon Rowley's Patch Garden & Million Flower Memorial Garden Fund - Seattle Post-Intelligencer - Feb 2002
- He has a down-to-earth recipe for gardening success - Christian Science Monitor - by Ross Atkin
X. Open Land Preservation
- National Organizations
- Local/Regional Organizations
- Foothills Land Conservancy, Southern Appalachian Mountains, TN
- The Park People, Houston, TX
XI. Safety
- NEW! Brownfields and Urban Agriculture: Interim Guide for Safe Gardening Practices [PDF]. A report of the US EPA, INTRODUCTION this document is a condensation of the input of 60 experts from academia, state and local government, and the nonprofit sector who gathered in Chicago on October 21 and 22, 2010 to outline the range of issues which need to be addressed in order to safely grow food on former brownfield sites.
- Call Before You Dig information: http://www.call811.com
- Search the following agencies for "leads" to get many good articles:
XII. Sustainable Communities
XIII. Miscellaneous (Funding, etc)
- Charity Channel: everything about and for non-profits and charities. A good forum section
- The Foundation Centre: lots of useful info and resources. See their "Proposal Writing Short Course" below
- Funding Opportunities
- Information for Non-Profits
- Non-Profit On-line News
- Philanthropy.com
- Philanthropy Round Table
- Proposal Writing Short Course: an easy to understand, short & to the point "How to do it"
XIV. Other Sources for Online Information
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Philadelphia Community Garden Network
Philadelphia Community Garden Network is a collaboration of Philadelphia's many Community Gardens. Its purpose is to create and support the free flow of ideas, knowledge, and many other resources available between the individual gardens of the Philadelphia metro area.
Have you found other useful web sites that you would like to see added to this list? Send the URL to info@communitygarden.org