Steve and All -- I am in favor of a quick count and would be willing to network in Missouri to compile an estimate.
Bill McKelvey Voice: 573-882-3273 -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Steven Garrett Sent: Wednesday, April 08, 2009 9:37 AM To: community gardening Subject: [Community_garden] How many community gardens in US? Jane, It strikes me that CGs are largely a phenomena of cities and college towns. Thus, I should think that the vast majority of those 169 towns are not going to have any CGs. For example, in Washington State we have a good deal more cities and towns than 169, but only Olympia, Tacoma, Seattle and maybe Spokane are going to have of CGs. So I make calls to folks in those towns and I am done. That is where the fudge factor comes into play. Maybe Everett or some other burg has a CG. But it would be a minimal loss to the data. The real issue is whether people want to do a quick survey, like I suggest, or try and get people to put their gardens in the ACGA database; as Betsy suggests. I suspect that many people involved with gardens are not involved with the ACGA (i.e., not on this list) so they are not going to head her call. But if we had 50 well networked people making some calls we might get a decent survey done. My only concern, as pointed out by Diane is CA, because it is so big and there are many cities and college towns. Easy to miss some there without a well organized effort. Steven ________________________________ From: "Nadel-Klein, Jane H" <[email protected]> To: Cordalie Benoit <[email protected]>; [email protected]; [email protected] Sent: Tuesday, April 7, 2009 11:26:55 AM Subject: Re: [Community_garden] How many community gardens in US? Well, we do - but they no longer seem to matter. We do have 169 towns, with no good way of coordinating anything among them. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://list.communitygarden.org/pipermail/community_garden_list.communi tygarden.org/attachments/20090408/f80e76d5/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.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: [email protected] To subscribe, unsubscribe or change your subscription: http://list.communitygarden.org/mailman/listinfo/community_garden_list.communitygarden.org
