Links
Community Gardens by State,Province,& Country- 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
- Sustainable Communities
- Miscellaneous (Funding, etc.)
- Other Sources of Information
I. Community Gardens by State, Province, and Country
USA
- Alabama:
- CASA Community Garden, Huntsville
- Alaska:
- Fairbanks Community Garden, Fairbanks
- California:
- Brisbane Community Garden, Brisbane
- Elk Grove Food Bank, Elk Grove
- Henderson Community Garden, Eureka
- Fortuna Community Garden, Fortuna
- Fresno Community Gardens Project, Fresno
- Hayward Community Garden, Hayward
- Wattles Farm, Hollywood
- Verano Community Garden, Irvine
- Long Beach Organic, Long Beach
- Common Ground Garden Program, Los Angeles
- Oakland Community Gardens, Oakland
- Garden for the Environment garden list or
San Francisco Park Department Community gardens, San Francisco - San Jose Community Gardens, San Jose
- Sunnyvale Community Gardens, Sunnyvale
- Lago Seco Community Gardens, Torrance
- Colorado:
- Boulder Community Garden, Boulder
- Denver Urban Gardens (D.U.G.), Denver
- Connecticut:
- Connecticut Community Gardening Association, Harwinton
- Knox Parks Community Gardens, Hartford
- The New Haven Land Trust, New Haven
- Delaware:
- Delaware Center for Horticulture, Wilmington
- Florida:
- CNAP - Community Nutrition Awareness Project, Ft. Lauderdale
- Neighborhood Nutrition Network, Gainsville
- Georgia:
- Hawaii:
- Hali`imaile Community Garden, Hali`imaile
- Idaho:
- Idaho Falls Community Gardens, Idaho Falls
- Jefferson Street Community Garden, Boise
- Illinois:
- NeighborSpace Community Gardens, Chicago
- Chicago's Community Gardens Program, Chicago
- SOUL: Save Our Urban Land, Chicago
- Cook County Sheriff's Garden, Chicago
- Indiana:
- The Capital City Garden Project, Indianapolis
- Iowa:
- Des Moines Community Gardening Coalition, Des Moines
- Massachusetts:
- Boston Natural Areas Network, Boston
- Michigan:
- Greening of Detroit, Detroit
- Detroit Agriculture Network, Detroit
- Earthworks Garden Project, Detroit
- Mixed Greens, Grand Rapids
- Greater Lansing Food Bank, Lansing
- Growing Hope, Ypsilanti
- SLLC Organic Community Church, Sylvan Lake
- Minnesota:
- Olson Community Gardens, City of Chanhassen
- Duluth Community Garden, Duluth
- GardenWorks
a Twin Cities community garden collaborative of
The Green Institute
Minnesota State Horticultural Society and
Farm in the City, Minneapolis & St. Paul - Bryn Mawr Community Gardens, Minneapolis
- Dowling Community Garden, Minneapolis
- Missouri:
- Community Garden Coalition, Columbia
- Gateway Greening, St. Louis
- Kansas City Community Gardens, Kansas City
- Nebraska:
- City Sprouts, Omaha
- Community CROPS, Lincoln
- New Jersey:
- Denville Community Garden, Denville
- New York:
- Capitol District Community Gardens, Albany
- Brooklyn GreenBridge, Brooklyn
- Massachusetts Avenue Project, Buffalo
- Seeking Common Ground Canandaigua
- 615 Green Community Garden, NYC
- 6B Garden, NYC
- Clinton Community Garden, NYC
- Community Garden Mapping Project, NYC
- Council on the Environment of New York City
- East New York Gardeners Association, NYC
- Harlem United Gardeners, NYC
- Green Guerillas, NYC
- Green Thumb, NYC
- La Familia Verde, NYC
- Liz Christy Garden, NYC
- Town of Guilderland Community Gardens
- Tree Branch Network, New York City's Internet Portal to Environmental and Urban Quality-of-Life Issues
- West Side Community Garden, NYC
- Rochester Roots, Rochester
- Syracuse Community Gardens, Syracuse
- North Carolina:
- Community Gardens, Mecklenburg
- The Dovetail Garden, Charlotte
- Robbins Park Community Garden, Cornelias
- Ohio:
- Civic Garden Center, Cincinnati
- OSU Extension, Cleveland
- Franklin Park Conservatory Community Garden Program, Columbus
- Toledo Botanical Garden, Toledo
- Oregon:
- Community Gardens, Portland
- Pennsylvania:
- Community Gardens of Chester County, Chester County (Unionville)
- Emily-Mercy Community Garden and Tree Farm, Philadelphia
- Philadelphia Community Garden Network, Philadelphia
- Philadelphia Green, Philadelphia
- The Brewery Garden Project, Philadelphia
- Urban Agriculture in Philadelphia, Philadelphia
- Rhode Island:
- Southside Community Land Trust, Providence
- South Carolina:
- Tennessee:
- Edgehill Community Garden, Nashville
- Sylvan Park Community Garden, Nashville
- Texas:
- South Austin Community Garden, Austin
- Sunshine Gardens, Austin
- Sustainable Food Center, Austin
- Coppell Community Gardens, Coppell
- Gardeners in Community Development, Dallas
- Urban Harvest, Houston
- Utah:
- Utah Gardens, Salt Lake City
- Wasatch Community Gardens, Salt Lake City
- Vermont:
- Friends of Burlington Gardens, Burlington
- Virginia:
- Tricycle Gardens, Richmond
- Washington:
- Marymoor Park Community Garden, Redmond
- North Green River Community Garden, Kent
- P-Patch, Seattle
- Wisconsin:
- Community Action Coalition of South Central Wisconsin, Inc., Madison
- Milwaukee Food Resources, Milwaukee
- Milwaukee County Cooperative Extension, Milwaukee County
- FEEDs Program, Wisconsin Extension statewide listing
- Wyoming:
- Cheyenne Botanic Gardens, Cheyenne
- Jackson Hole Community Garden, Jackson Hole
- Washington DC:
Canada
- British Columbia:
- BC Food Systems Network, Sorrento
- Community Gardens in Greater Vancouver and Victoria, Vancouver
- LifeCycles Project Society, Victoria
- Northwest Territories:
- Inuvik Community Greenhouse, Inuvik (north of the Arctic Circle!)
- Ontario:
- Dufferin Grove Park, Toronto
- Foodlink, Waterloo Region
- Hillcrest Park Community Garden, Toronto
- Huron St.Community Garden, Toronto
- The Stop Community Food Centre, Toronto
- Toronto Community Garden Network, Toronto
- University of Waterloo Community Garden, Waterloo
United Kingdom
- Allotment and Kitchen Gardens
- NSALG , The National Society of Allotment and Leisure Gardens
Australia
II. Community Garden Start Up Resources
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 — Order your copy today!- 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
- 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
- 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
III. 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.
- Community Gardening in Rural Regions: Enhancing Food Security and Nutrition by Ashley F. Sullivan December 1999
- 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
IV. Gardening with Children
Children's Garden in Brazil, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil- Civic Garden Center's Youth Education Program, Cincinnati
- 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 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
V. Gardening With Seniors and the Disabled
- Accessible Gardening, Bring Mother Earth Within Reach by Lori Hungate
- The American Horticultural Society
- Garden Forever, an extensive site with good info
- Gardening in Raised Beds and Containers for Older Gardeners and Individuals with Physical Disabilities Diane Relf, PhD, H.T.M.-- Don't do anything without this resource
- Gardening With Disabled Individuals
- Gardening With the Elderly, Ohio State University Extension Fact Sheet
- Horticultural Therapy - Create an Enabled Garden
- Horticultural Therapy - Chicago Botanic Garden Horticultural Therapy Services
- Diabetes and Gardening
VI. 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
VII. 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
- CNAP - Community Nutrition Awareness Project
- Detroit Agricultural Network
- Dirty Dozen Garden Club
- 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.
- Gardennet:
- 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
- West African Vegetables
VIII. Farmers' Markets
IX. Food Security
- Appalachian Sustainable Agriculture Project (ASAP)
- Arkansas Hunger Coalition
- Austin Farmers Market, Austin, Texas
- Chicago Community Gardeners Farmers Market
- Community Food Security Coalition
- Center on Hunger and Poverty
- FoodShare Toronto
- Madison Food System Project
- 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
- What's "Moo" monthly newsletter of the National Hunger Clearinghouse database
- World Hunger Year
X. 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
- How to bake a batch of compost - Christian Science Monitor - by Ross Atkin
XI. Open Land Preservation
- National Organizations
- Local/Regional Organizations
- Foothills Land Conservancy, Southern Appalachian Mountains, TN
- The Park People, Houston, TX
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
- GrantHelp: like it's name sounds, help and tips for grant writers.
- 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"
- Raising More Money
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.
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