Steven, in Connecticut we have about 80 programs, many with more than one
garden. We have a community garden at a school in Warren, CT. It doesn't
get more rural that here.
We have very few cities in CT and all are under 140,000 pop.
The community aspect of a c. garden appeals to suburban and "rural"
families too and even a big yard can be all shade. Best, Cordalie
----- Original Message -----
From: "Nadel-Klein, Jane H" <[email protected]>
To: "Steven Garrett" <[email protected]>; "community gardening"
<[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, April 09, 2009 10:57 AM
Subject: Re: [Community_garden] How many community gardens in US?
Well, my town (pop. 20,000 and no college) has a cg, as do several
neighboring towns. But I have no way of knowing if that is typical.
-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] on behalf of
Steven Garrett
Sent: Wed 4/8/2009 10:36 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
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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.
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