Community Gardens at Public Housing Reported from the American Community Gardening E-mail List
St. John's United Church of Christ Organic Community Garden and Labyrinth at the Fairview Village Housing Project, Phoenixville, PA owned by the Housing Authority of Chester County. East Park Manor Housing Project Community Garden in Muskegon Heights, MI (provided by the Muskegon Heights Housing Commission) Coalition for Community Development in Grand Rapids, MI (Christian-generated low-income housing) is working with the Greater Grand Rapids Food Systems Council to incorporate community gardens into all site plans. New Columbia Housing Project in Portland, OR has a youth garden built and maintained by the Portland Housing Authority. A second community garden, managed by Portland Parks and Recreation and open to everyone in the neighborhood, was created when New Columbia was rebuilt with federal funding and locally matched grants to built a combination of market rate, low income and public housing along with a community center and a school. These Boston Housing Authority projects contain community gardens: Franklin Field Development (Dorchester); Commonwealth Housing Development (Allston/Brighton); South Street Development (Jamaica Plain) San Francisco includes community gardens at the Alice Griffth Housing Development Sacramento Housing and Redevelopment Agency (SHRA) has land used for the Fred Lawson Community Garden, named after a Little League coach killed by a stray bullet about 1/4 mile away Another community garden on SHRA property in the same low income neighborhood will open next spring. Mercy Housing of Northern California - low income housing planned a community garden into the over 100 unit Kennedy Estates apartments complex (over 7 different languages are spoken in the complex). Mercy Housing's Quinn Cottages project is also a community garden on site. Capitol Area Development Authority (CADA) has created and donated two community gardens to the Sacramento Parks Department.: Southside Community Garden (2002) and the Fremont Community Garden (grand opening on June 9, 2007) New York City Housing Authority has a contest each year for the "best" community gardens on their properties, in a variety of categories. Cabrini Green Housing Project in Chicago, IL raises livestock with Heifer Project International and participates in the Growing Power Community Garden. Southwark/Queen Village Community Garden, one of Philadelphia's largest, is located on Dept. of Public Property land that will revert back to HUD if it is used for anything other than "passive recreation." Georgia (around Atlanta) Community Gardens at Public Housing: Tobie Grant Manor CG 3218 Tobie Circle Scottdale, GA 30079 Carver CG 201 Moury Ave #913 Atlanta, GA 30315 College Park Community Coalition CG 2015 Virginia Ave College Park, GA 30337 Red Oak CG Red Oak Rennaissance Center 4800 Campbell Drive College Park, GA 30349 Hooten Street CG McDonough, GA 30352 MLK Tower CG 525 Whitehall Terrace, SW Atlanta, GA 30312 Capitol Avenue High Rise Community Garden 811 Capitol Avenue, SE Atlanta, GA 30318 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://list.communitygarden.org/pipermail/community_garden_list.communitygarden.org/attachments/20070528/d10bd1fe/attachment.html
