National Community Gardening Week: August 23-29

The U.S. Department of Agriculture has declared August 23rd-29th to be "National Community Gardening Week"!

"Community gardens provide numerous benefits including opportunities for local food production, resource conservation, and neighborhood beautification," said Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack.

"But they also promote family and community interaction and enhance opportunities to eat healthy, nutritious foods. Each of these benefits is something we can and should strive for."

Videos:

• Growing hope: the Homeless Garden Project story


• Ours to decide: the story of a community, an alliance and a piece of land everybody wants

E-books:

• City bountiful: a century of community gardening in America
• Extension-sponsored community gardens in northeast Wisconsin: exploring "cultural differences in use"
  
• For hunger-proof cities: sustainable urban food systems

Books, documents & theses:

• Avant gardening: ecological struggle in the city & the world


• Belltown paradise, and, Making their own plans


• Building commons and community


• City bountiful: a century of community gardening in America


• Closing the food gap: resetting the table in the land of plenty


• Community garden book: new directions for creating and managing neighborhood food gardens in your town


• Community gardening organizations’ relationship to the public planning function: a story of shared goals


• Community gardens: a guide to organization and development


• Community voices: creating sustainable spaces


• Complete book of community gardening


• Growing a stronger community with community gardens, an action plan for Madison


• Growing together: community gardening and food security


• Growing with community gardening


• Handbook of community gardening


• Harvest of the suburbs: an environmental history of growing food in Australian cities


• Harvesting the city: community gardening in greater Madison, Wisconsin


• Loisaida: NYC community gardens


• Patch of Eden: America’s inner-city gardeners


• People power: what communities are doing to counter inflation


• Recreational community gardening: a guide to organization and development


• Starting a community garden


• To dwell is to garden: a history of Boston’s community gardens

Websites:

• American Community Gardening Association


• "People's Garden" - USDA headquarters, Washington, D.C.


• Wisconsin Master Gardener program

Bibliographies:

• Urban and community gardening, 1979-1987: 136 citations


• Urban and community gardening, January 1984-April 1990


• Urban community gardens