Especially if there are adult beverages. Let me put in a plug for the conference too! I still haven't used up the ideas I got when I went to the conference in 2005! And Boston ain't bad either! Best, Cordalie ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jack Hale" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <community_garden at list.communitygarden.org> Sent: Thursday, April 19, 2007 1:19 PM Subject: Re: [Community_garden] Study or research info needed
> > A while back, when we needed to communicate something like this, we > first used our own rule of thumb that people travel no more than a half > mile to get to a neighborhood community garden (that number doesn't > apply to our large scale "magnet" gardens, but it seems to work for the > smaller ones). That gave us a way to think about number of locations > and likely placement. Then we tried to come up with a "plots per > thousand residents" number based on the density of the better developed > garden programs in the country. I think we used Seattle as our > benchmark. That could yield an indicator of the number of additional > plots you need to create and the number of additional gardeners you > would need to recruit to get to that level. My bet is that trying to > come at it from the more logical and scientific direction that you are > thinking about will make you absolutely crazy. On the other hand, if > you come to the conference in August and get at a table with a bunch of > us old community gardeners and a supply of adult beverages, I bet we > could come up with some garden science that would make your head spin. > Good luck. > JH > > Jack N. Hale > Executive Director > Knox Parks Foundation > 75 Laurel Street > Hartford, CT 06106 > 860/951-7694 > > -----Original Message----- > From: community_garden-bounces at list.communitygarden.org > [mailto:community_garden-bounces at list.communitygarden.org] On Behalf Of > Kirsten Saylor > Sent: Thursday, April 19, 2007 12:36 PM > To: community_garden at list.communitygarden.org > Subject: [Community_garden] Study or research info needed > > Hello y'all, > > > > I'm working with my county to get language supportive of community > gardens into city and county comprehensive plans. One thing we were > bouncing around is helping planners understand WHEN a community garden > is needed for a community (i.e. a top-down establishment of a community > garden), and I wondered if we could say that there should be enough > plots for XX% of households within a housing complex (for instance). > > > > Does anyone know of a study or research that would help substantiate > what percentage of households to use? I'm just looking for a general > number or a number for a specific population group (i.e. seniors) - just > need something to hang my hat on. > > > > Thank you, Kirsten > > > > > > Kirsten Saylor > > GardenWorks, Program Manager > > The Green Institute > > 2801 21st Avenue South, Suite 110 > > Minneapolis, MN 55407 > > 612-278-7123 > > ksaylor at greeninstitute.org > > www.gardenworksMN.org > > Promoting and Preserving Community Gardening Across the Twin Cities > > > > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: > http://list.communitygarden.org/pipermail/community_garden_list.communit > ygarden.org/attachments/20070419/27cc168d/attachment.html > _______________________________________________ > The American Community Gardening Association listserve is only one of > ACGA's services to community gardeners. To learn more about the ACGA and > to find out how to join, please go to http://www.communitygarden.org > > To post an e-mail to the list: > community_garden at list.communitygarden.org > > To subscribe, unsubscribe or change your subscription: > http://list.communitygarden.org/mailman/listinfo/community_garden_list.c > ommunitygarden.org > > _______________________________________________ > The American Community Gardening Association listserve is only one of > ACGA's services to community gardeners. To learn more about the ACGA and > to find out how to join, please go to http://www.communitygarden.org > > To post an e-mail to the list: community_garden at list.communitygarden.org > > To subscribe, unsubscribe or change your subscription: > http://list.communitygarden.org/mailman/listinfo/community_garden_list.communitygarden.org >
