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 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 --------------------------------- Everyone is raving about the all-new Yahoo! Mail beta.
