January 22,2007 Hello ACGA list serv friends,
Don was very kind to recommend our 2005 book, "Patchwork: stories of gardens and community," as a resource for community gardeners and organizers. If a list serv or ACGA member would like to order "Patchwork," we still have first edition copies available and can provide a 20% discount and free shipping on orders received through February 10, 2007. To order one or more copies, please send a note with your mailing address and a check* for $7.95 per book to: ACGA Book Special c/o Friends of Burlington Gardens PO Box 4504 Burlington, VT 05406-4504 * Please make your check payable to "Friends of Burlington Gardens." For more info, please visit http://www.burlingtongardens.org/Patchwork.htm. The regular price of Patchwork as listed on our web site is $9.95 plus $2.00 shipping and handling. Sincerely, Jim Flint, Executive Director Friends of Burlington Gardens 180 Flynn Ave Studio 3 PO Box 4504 Burlington, VT 05406-4504 802-861-4769 www.burlingtongardens.org Anyway, to Adam's list, I'd suggest: 25 Years of Community Gardening (ACGA, 2005), ISBN-13 978-1-59975-411-6. It's a collection of 'best' articles on a veriety of community gardening topics from the American Community Gardening Association magazine between 1980 and 2004. You can get it from ACGA or Amazon (US). The collection is OK, though space limitations meant leaving out some very good articles (including a couple of excellent essays by Adam), so looking for copies of ACGA's Journal of Community Gardening and Community Greening Review are well worth the effort. Of the Jobb book vintage is Mary Lee Coe's Growing With Community Gardening (Countryman Press, Vermont, 1978) ISBN 0-914378-36-8. Her book is less of a 'how to' than Jobb or Larry Sommer's The Community Garden Book (Gardens For All/National Gardening Association, Vermont, 1984), and has better historical notes. I like Patchwork, stories of gardens and community, by Jim Flint and Beret Halverson (Friends of Burlington Gardens, Vermont, 2005) ISBN 0-9713583-3-8, and A Patch of Eden, American's inner-city gardeners, by Patricia Hynes (Chelsea Green, Vermont, 1996) ISBN 0-930031-80-6 for stories from the garden. Good luck! Rumor has it that the upcoming edition of the Community Greening Review will be on community garden research, so you may want to watch for that later this year. Don Boekelheide Charlotte, NC
