That number does NOT exist and any number you are given (such as by the National Gardening Association) is made up. Part of the problem is that there is no one definition of what constitutes a community garden. Based on extrapolating from surveys, the best estimate is that there are about 25,000 community gardens, somewhat more if school gardens are included.
ACGA's next Greening Review that will be published summer 2013 includes a detailed survey of US and Canadian community garden organizations. Betsy Johnson 31 Mattoon Street Springfield, MA 01105 413-301-5387 [email protected] On Jan 5, 2013, at 11:32 AM, Patty Sechi wrote: > Hi Cordelia, > > DO you have data on how many community gardens and household gardens exist in > the US? > > Patty Sechi > > _______________________________________________ > 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 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://list.communitygarden.org/pipermail/community_garden_list.communitygarden.org/attachments/20130105/f8b2bc8b/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
