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Community Gardens Growing Food and Building Communities Eric Stormer Extension Agent ANR - Horticulture www.slideshare.net/ EricStormer
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A brief history of the Community Garden movement, as well as the process of developing a Community Garden.
Transcript of Establishing a Community Garden
Community Gardens
Growing Food and Building Communities
Eric Stormer
Extension Agent
ANR - Horticulture
www.slideshare.net/EricStormer
Virginia Cooperative Extension Units (107)
Extension Faculty (Agents, Specialists)
Staff - Paid and Volunteer (Master Gardeners, 4-H, etc. )
Virginia Cooperative Extension
Organizational Chart
VIRGINIA COOPERATIVE EXTENSION MISSION
Virginia Cooperative Extension enables people to improve their
lives through an educational process that uses scientific
knowledge focused on issues and needs.
What is a Community Garden?
A Bit of History…
Some History…
The Allotment Garden
Allotment Gardens
The Community Garden Movement -Social and Educational Reform
1890 - 1917
World War I
World War I
World War II
World War II
Response to urban abandonment, inflation, environmental concerns
Focus on networking and building community
1970s
The Value ofCommunity Gardens
Aesthetic Economic Social Quality of Life Reduction in Crime Lifelong learning Environmental
Municipal Value
Municipal Value
Recreational
Nutritional Value
Did you eat your vegetables?
Improved Diet!
Value of Community Gardens
Opportunity to participate in healthy physical activity
Fresh, better tasting food at substantially lower cost over store-bought
• Watering lawn or garden: 61• Mowing lawn (riding): 101• Trimming shrubs (power): 142• Raking: 162• Bagging leaves: 162• Planting seedlings: 162• Mowing (push with motor): 182• Planting trees: 182• Trimming shrubs (manual): 182• Weeding: 182• Clearing land: 202• Digging, spading, tilling: 202• Laying sod: 202• General gardening: 202• Chopping wood: 243• Gardening w/ heavy power tools:
243• Mowing lawn (push mower): 243
ExerciseNumber of calories burned in 30 minutes of gardening…
For a 180 lb. person -
Youth Education
Crime Reduction
Affordable Food
Community Gardens may be for Growing Flowers…
Vegetables,
Children,
Brooklyn Botanic Garden
Growing Children Since 1914.
as Entrepreneurial Ventures,
and to Combat Hunger.
They may Provide Habitat…
and Reinforce School Lessons.
They may Manage Water…
or they may be Therapeutic.
Some are Edible Landscapes!
But first, we need people,…
and a patch of good soil!
How To StartPlan your work, work your plan.
Growing a Community Garden.
Develop Structure & Leadership
Develop a marketing plan.
Use Social Media!
Develop communicationstrategies.
Create a Safe Environment
Think ‘bout money!
Partner and Collaborate
Take time to develop a garden plan.
Have Fun!!!
