[Community_garden] Fwd: Community garden international question

[adam36055 at aol.com]

Community gardens on the "North American," model have  been developed in most European Countries - in Paris of all places.  Here is a community garden in London that's twinned with the Clinton Community Garden in NYC.  http://www.culpeper.org.uk/ 
 
And of course there is the limey version of the Green Guerillas. http://www.guerrillagardening.org/ . If you scroll down on this site, you can see super annuated community gardeners like me #276 Adam Honigman and #277 Don Loggins, who were guerilla gardeners back in "the day," 
 
Best wishes, 
 
Adam Honigman
 
 
-----Original Message-----
From: skyprice at gmail.com
To: community_garden at list.communitygarden.org
Sent: Wed, 6 Dec 2006 8:47 PM
Subject: [Community_garden] Fwd: Community garden international question


This is something that came over the Comfoods list-serve that I said I
would forward to this list. (Sorry to those of you who saw it
already.) I'm very interested to hear the answers myself, so please
try to include me if you decide to respond directly to Steven Garrett
-- any responses that come to this whole list I can forward to him.

Thank you,
Cynthia Price
Greater Grand Rapids Food Systems Council

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Steven Garrett <geografood at yahoo.com>
Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2006 13:23:11 -0800 (PST)
Subject: [COMFOOD:] Community garden question
To: Community Food Security Coalition <comfood at elist.tufts.edu>

Hi all,
In 1999 I spoke at a conference in Nottingham, UK on community
gardens. Perhaps others on the list also have attended. While the
conference was billed as "The First International Community Gardening
Conference," it became clear the specific form of urban agriculture
that we in North America come to recognize as community gardens, did
not seem to exist elsewhere. The other forms that were prevalent
included allotment gardens, home gardens, market gardens, etc.

They invited us Yanks because they were especially keen (as they would
say) to instigate community gardens because Europeans were abandoning
the larger allotments and because inner city poverty was increasing
and many allotments were on the city fringes.

My question is whether the form of urban ag that we call community
gardens with its relatively small plots, usual inner city locations,
fair amount of turnover, open design (versus fenced plots), etc,
exists in other countries besides Canada and the US. My understanding
is that Havana might be another place where this form exists.
Cheers,
Steven


Steven Garrett, MS, MA, RD
Ph.D. student, Geography
University of Washington
817 North Sheridan
Tacoma, WA 98403
Phone: 253-272-0775
sgarrett at u.washington.edu
geografood at yahoo.com

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