Conferences
Join us for the
33RD ANNUAL AMERICAN COMMUNITY GARDENING ASSOCIATION'S NATIONAL CONFERENCE
"Community Gardening On the Cutting Edge"
Thursday, August 9 - Sunday, August 12, 2012
Hilton Financial District, 750 Kearny Street
San Francisco, CA
Special room rate for those who book before July 18th
Call to reserve your room: 415-433-6600 or reserve online at
http://www.hilton.com/en/hi/groups/personalized/S/SFOFDHF-ACGA-20120809/index.jhtml?WT.mc_id=POG
The 2012 ACGA Conference in San Francisco is a gathering hundreds of passionate individuals from across the U.S., Canada, and abroad, who are engaged in all aspects of contemporary gardening and greening. This inspiring conference includes state-of-the-art, hands-on workshops, provocative keynote speakers, cooking classes, networking opportunities and guided visits to cutting-edge urban community gardens in many of the San Francisco's famous neighborhoods, and in parks, schools and green spaces around one of the most beautiful cities in the world.
Stay tuned for more information registration for the conference at: http://www.communitygarden.org.
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Current Sponsors:
Recology
Hilton Hotels
SFDPW
Past Conferences:
Dates, Locations, and Themes:
| 2011 | New York, NY | "Community Gardening Works!" |
| 2010 | Atlanta, Georgia | "A Holistic Approach to Building Sustainable and Healthy Communities: The Choice is Yours" |
| 2009 | Columbus, Ohio | "Putting Down Roots" |
| 2008 | New Orleans, Louisiana | ACGA did not host a Membership Conference in 2008, but instead supported a local service effort in New Orleans |
| 2007 | Boston, Massachusetts | "Beantown Digs Community Gardens" |
| 2006 | Los Angeles, California | "Rooting for the Future" |
| 2005 | Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minneapolis | "Gardening in the Heartland - At the Water's Edge" |
| 2004 | Toronto, Ontario | "Gardens of Diversity, Growing Across Cultures" |
| 2003 | Chicago, Illinois | "Easy Being Green?" |
| 2002 | New York City, New York | "Gardeners Restore our World" |
| 2001 | Salt Lake City, Utah | "Pioneering Self-Reliance, Conservation and Leadership Through Community Gardening" |
| 2000 | Atlanta, Georgia | "Planting Millennium Seeds for Future Urban Growth" |
| 1999 | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania | "Keep Dancing to the Beet- 20 Years of ACGA" |
| 1998 | Seattle, Washington | "Growing EverGreener: Cultivating Healthy Communities" |
| 1997 | Indianapolis, Indiana/Dayton, Ohio | "Taking Root, Building Community From the Ground Up" |
| 1996 | Montreal, Quebec | "Branching Out: Linking Communities Through Gardening" |
| 1995 | Portland, Oregon | "Pathways to Community" |
| 1994 | Chicago, Illinois | "Roots for the Community" |
| 1993 | Louisville, Kentucky | "Sustainable Communities through Greening" |
| 1992 | Denver, Colorado | "Partnerships for Community Revitalization" |
| 1991 | Cleveland, Ohio | "Cultivating Community Leaders" |
| 1990 | Milwaukee, Wisconsin | "Community Gardens - Focus on Recycling: People, Land & Resources" |
| 1989 | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania | "The Beet Goes On: Community Development Through Greening" |
| 1988 | Ashville, North Carolina | "Cultivating Communities in the Garden" |
| 1987 | Seattle, Washington | "Community Gardening - Growing for a Livable City" |
| 1986 | St. Louis, Missouri | "Community Gardening - Rooted in People" |
| 1985 | New York City | "Community Gardening - a tool towards greening the city" |
| 1984 | Austin, Texas | "Community Gardens - the key to urban food production in the 1980's" |
| 1983 | San Jose, California | |
| 1982 | Boston, Massachusetts | |
| 1981 | Denver, Colorado | |
| 1980 | Milwaukee, Wisconsin | |
| 1979 | Chicago, Illinois |