Community Gardens

Archive link to flickr:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/35460628@N03/sets/

I added photos to a ‘Community Gardens’ set in my flickr account, under calee9929.

Google Map in progress:

More photos to come

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More information and links on archive images:

**The Edible Schoolyard

http://www.edibleschoolyard.org/

–The Edible Schoolyard (ESY), a program of the Chez Panisse Foundation, is a one-acre organic garden and kitchen classroom for urban public school students at the Martin Luther King, Jr. Middle School in Berkeley, California. At ESY, students participate in all aspects of growing, harvesting, and preparing nutritious, seasonal produce.

**Chicago Park District

http://www.cpdit01.com/resources/community_gardens/index.html

–Harvest Garden

The Harvest Garden program gives children age 8-12, a three season in-depth experience with organic vegetable gardening. The program started in 2000 with a few parks, and has grown to reach 16 parks throughout the city. While our primary goal is to help children appreciate nature by giving them a broader understanding of it, we also aim to incorporate other areas of learning. We read books, do creative writing and visual art activities, and play a lot of games.

–Rainbow Park Victory Garden

The Rainbow Park Victory Garden was established by Rainbow park neighbors during the Second World War. Neighbors’ Garden, in the Logan Square neighborhood, is unique in that the entire park is a community garden. Whereas the gardening group at Wicker Park is composed of many dedicated people who contribute in various ways to the neighborhood, not only through their gardening, but also by organizing fundraising efforts and creating programs for kids.

–Jackson Park – Urban Farm

Plans are fast underway for an Urban Farm in Jackson Park which will include hoop greenhouses and raised beds managed by ‘Growing Power’, for year round produce, making locally grown food that exceeds certified organic standards available at local farmer’s markets. Our partnership with ‘Growing Power’ will specialize in providing a youth development program and allotment plots for the community, supported with training and education workshops and events.

**NYC Community Gardens

http://www.oasisnyc.net/gardens/resources.htm

–Creative Little Garden

http://www.creativelittlegarden.org/

Located at 530 East Sixth Street, between Avenues A & B, the Creative Little Garden has been an oasis of tranquility in New York’s East Village for 25 years. It’s a “community backyard,” maintained by volunteers from the surrounding neighborhood. There are no plots tended by individual gardeners, instead members collaborate on the landscaping of the whole park. Everyone, not only members, can relax, read, have lunch, work on your laptop or just enjoy the sights, sounds and smells of our garden…or you can hold a scheduled private event.

–M’Finda Kalunga Community Garden

www.mkgarden.org

‘Communal backyard’ for those who live in the area. The M’Finda Kalunga Garden means “Garden at the Edge of the Other Side of the World” in the Kikongo language. It is named in memory of the “second” African American burial ground that was located on nearby Chrystie Street between Rivington and Stanton Streets in NYC.

–R.I.N.G. Garden, Manhattan

http://www.geo.hunter.cuny.edu/~mclarke/RING.htm

Community volunteers of all ages and interests participate in a variety of activities. These include planting of annuals and spring bulbs, dividing perennials, pruning shrubs and trees, erosion control, landscaping, weeding, mulching, watering, vermin control, fertilizing, lawn care, and pond care among others. With our compost bins, we have been producing new organic-rich soil using our own yard waste and residential food waste. Recent special projects in the garden have included a fish pond ecosystem with a solar-powered waterfall and self-contained stream.

–Master Peace farm+school+community garden

http://www.dc-urban-gardener-news.com/community_gardens/

Located in Riverdale, Maryland, a garden established by U-Maryland’s Cooperative Extension Service as part of their food stamp nutrition education program.  The overall resounding goal for the garden is to “grow relationships”.

–Hill East Community Garden, D.C.

http://www.hilleastgarden.org/

What was once an overgrown, neglected plot of land in an alley has now become a thriving community garden thanks to the members of the East Capital Hill neighborhood.

–Clagett Farm, MD

http://www.clagettfarm.org/

Clagett Farm is a working farm, owned and operated by the Chesapeake Bay Foundation (CBF) in Upper Marlboro, Maryland. At the farm we grow vegetables for our Community Supported Agriculture program, raise grass fed cattle and have a native tree nursery on more than 285 acres.Our vegetable production project called “From the Ground Up” a joint effort of the Capital Area Food Bank and the Chesapeake Bay Foundation. We raise a wide variety of produce and strive to provide our food to people of all income levels. Almost half of our produce is distributed free or at reduced prices to underserved communities in Washington D.C.

–American Community Gardening Association

http://www.communitygarden.org/

–Cornell Garden-Based Learning

http://blogs.cornell.edu/garden/

An extension of the Department of Horticulture at Cornell University, provides an outlet for youth and adults through community activities.

–University of California—How-to

http://celosangeles.ucdavis.edu/garden/articles/startup_guide.html