New York has nowhere near 2000 cgs. 600 Greenthumb, Land trust and miscellaneous and maybe 3- 400 Housing Authority sites. I'd say 1000 is a better estimate for NYC.
Lenny Librizzi Council on the Environment 51 Chambers Street room 228 NY,NY 10007 212-788-7927 phone 212-788-7913 fax [email protected] www.cenyc.org -----Original Message----- From: Don Boekelheide [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Mon 4/6/2009 5:16 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [Community_garden] How many community gardens in US? Hey, all, Pam Ruch at Organic Gardening asked if I knew how many community gardens there currently are in the US. I sent the following reply - anybody have another idea? It's been really nice, but it is getting chilly all of a sudden. Better run out and drag everything inside, slap up some Reemay... Don >>my note to Pam...<< ACGA reported just over 6000 in 1996, which unfortunately was the last scientific study, overseen by Mark Francis at UC Davis. ACGA did a follow up in the early 2000s, but the data was never compiled that I know of. In the decade since, there has been a noticeable expansion - in Charlotte, for example, we moved from 8 gardens in '96 to at least 15 today. Statewide, I've seen a similar trend. There is also this amazing burst of interest right now, boosted by that wonderful White House lawn project. People are talking about starting at least 6 new projects locally that I know of, some of them really big ambitious ones. Given that we've lost some gardens during the same period (that big one in LA a couple years ago, locally at least 3 have tanked), I'd still say the current number is approximately 15,000, with New York alone having at least 2000 (they had 1900 in 1996), and Philadelphia over 1000. By the end of the next year, the national number could jump to closer to 20,000. I'll send this question to CG listserv and see if anybody has anything firmer. Don << -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://list.communitygarden.org/pipermail/community_garden_list.communitygarden.org/attachments/20090407/7259e1b7/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: [email protected] To subscribe, unsubscribe or change your subscription: http://list.communitygarden.org/mailman/listinfo/community_garden_list.communitygarden.org
