I build senior affordable an special needs housing and nput gardens at all projects. Can someone post or send pictures of the "table" type ADA raised bed. Thank you Dory
Sent from my iPhone On Dec 19, 2013, at 10:52 AM, "[email protected]" <[email protected]> wrote: > great way to address a variety of ways!! > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Jim and Donna Cox <[email protected]> > To: community_garden <[email protected]> > Sent: Thu, Dec 19, 2013 8:50 am > Subject: [Community_garden] accessible beds > > > To address Ray's issue of accessible beds, we have tried to build our > community garden to be accessible by all. We could not find any ADA > regulations for gardens, but there are some suggestions. Our garden is > broken up into quadrants. One quadrant has some very low beds with wood > chip walkways that are easily accessible to children. One quadrant has > crushed compacted gravel that is easier for people in walkers, scooters or > wheel chairs. This quadrant also has beds built at 33 inches high so they > can be accessed by someone in a sitting position or a standing position with > very little bending required. Two beds in this quadrant are built "table" > style so that a wheel chair can roll up close to the bed. Each garden has > to look at who is likely to access their garden and build accordingly. > > > > Donna > > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: > <http://list.communitygarden.org/pipermail/community_garden_list.communitygarden.org/attachments/20131219/43fbc7ed/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 > > > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: > <http://list.communitygarden.org/pipermail/community_garden_list.communitygarden.org/attachments/20131219/df515cd9/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 _______________________________________________ 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
