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Community Gardens
 Websites presented in alphabetical order American Community Gardening Association: Learn 
 Background about community gardens, "[a]ny piece of land gardened by a group of people." Features profiles of U.S. community gardens (browsable by geographic location), a guide to starting a community garden, audio of gardening teleconferences, a best practices series covering topics such as children's gardening and saving seeds, a FAQ, and other related publications and links. From the American Community Gardening Association. http://www.communitygarden.org/learn/ Topics: Gardening Last updated Apr 15, 2008 Community Garden Start-Up Guide
This guide "is intended to help neighborhood groups and organizations along the path to starting and sustaining a community garden." Some of the topics covered include steps to starting a community garden (such as finding land and getting soil tested), basic elements of and nice additions to a community garden, starting to grow plants in the garden, and troubleshooting (such as security and weeds). From the University of California Cooperative Extension, Los Angeles County. http://celosangeles.ucdavis.edu/garden/articles/startup_guide.html Topics: Gardening Last updated Apr 24, 2008 USDA People's Community Garden Initiative
Collection of photo galleries for the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) People's Community Garden, which was established in 2009 to commemorate the Abraham Lincoln bicentennial. Includes images of the ground-breaking in February 2009 at the USDA headquarters (Washington, D.C.), pavement removal, Earth Day preparations, and more. Press release about the project can be found in the February 2009 gallery "Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack Unveils the New Sign for the People's Garden Project." From the USDA. http://www.usda.gov/wps/portal/usdahome?contentidonly=true&contentid=garden_pgphoto_gallery_index.xml Topics: Gardening Last updated Apr 20, 2009 |
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