[Community_garden] U.S. Survey of Community Gardens

Thu May 1 14:41:14 EDT 2008

Thanks for the clarification, but that would mean we would need to enter 69 gardens on to your website instead of linking to our website which lists them already.  Maybe I could slowly do this but if someone has any other suggestions that would be most helpful.

Thanks for your time,
Sandy Pernitz
Community Garden Coordinator
P-Patch Community Gardening Program/Sustaining Grounds for Community Growing
"Life as a whole expresses itself as a force that is not to be contained within any one part."  Goethe
PO Box 94649
Seattle, WA 98124-4649
sandy.pernitz at seattle.gov
206-684-0284
office location: Department of Neighborhoods/700 5th Avenue Suite 1700

>>> Diana Liu <diana1127 at sbcglobal.net> 5/1/2008 11:29 AM >>>

I think that we should include individual gardens.  Hopefully, somewhere down the road, people who are interested in helping or to be involved in community gardens can search the database to find ones near where they are.  Of course some may need to be excluded or masked such as those associated with domestic violence shelters and etc.

In Los Angeles, we have a resource website www.healthycity.org.  I hope that we can include school/community gardens on this website.

Sandy Pernitz <Sandy.Pernitz at Seattle.Gov> wrote:
Hi folks,
I am also wondering how you would like citywide programs to link in to this database of gardens? Do we need to list each garden individually or can we simply register as a program?

Thanks for your time,
Sandy Pernitz
Community Garden Coordinator
P-Patch Community Gardening Program/Sustaining Grounds for Community Growing
"Life as a whole expresses itself as a force that is not to be contained within any one part." Goethe
PO Box 94649
Seattle, WA 98124-4649
sandy.pernitz at seattle.gov
206-684-0284
office location: Department of Neighborhoods/700 5th Avenue Suite 1700

>>> Elizabeth Johnson 5/1/2008 5:56 AM >>>

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" 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
> 
> 
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> ----- Original Message ----
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> 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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