[Community_garden] U.S. Survey of Community Gardens

[Elizabeth Johnson]

One of the purposes of the new online ACGA community garden database is
precisely because there is not good data/survey of the community gardens out
there.  As former ACGA executive director I was continually frustrated that
I needed to come up with questimates about community garden numbers and
demographics.  

So, now we just need to get all the gardens out there to go to
www.communitygarden.org and add information about their garden(s) to the
database.  Down the road, ACGA hopes to recruit some interns to help with
the data collection -- meanwhile let me know if you'd like to join a cadre
of information gatherers.


Betsy Johnson
11 1/2 Greenwich Park
Boston, MA 02118
617-536-1711   betsy at bgjohnson.com


On 4/30/08 6:10 PM, "Steven Garrett" <geografood at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Bill,
> I have developed a survey but by the time I got it together, growing season
> started and I got REAL busy (teaching 12 credits of new courses, working on
> PhD , being a daddy, training for 200 mile bike ride, etc), so I was wondering
> whether I should proceed with it. I received feedback on it already from some
> folks central to this movement, but it is not fully tested.
> It would take quite a bit of effort on everyone's part to make it useful.
> Someone or several folks in each city would need to do some groundwork and/or
> well informed guesswork. The last surveys done by ACGA (1998 was the last one)
> were very limited in scope (30 some cities), so we really have no idea the
> extent of the movement.
> What do you all think?
> Steven
> Steven M. Garrett
> Doctoral Candidate, Geography
> Lecturer, Urban Studies
> University of Washington Tacoma
> 
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: "McKelvey Jr., William" <McKelveyWA at missouri.edu>
> To: community_garden at list.communitygarden.org
> Sent: Wednesday, April 30, 2008 2:49:30 PM
> Subject: [Community_garden] U.S. Survey of Community Gardens
> 
> Is there by chance another U.S. survey of community gardens underway?
> Does anyone have the contact information of the person or group
> responsible for the survey?
> 
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> 
> Thank you.
> 
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> 
> Bill
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