You can go to our website, www.lightofchristgarden.org, click on Eagle Scout Projects. In the upper right is a picture of our "table" bed. If you click on the picture, you can see how it was built. It is built in four quadrants, each quadrant slants to the center of the bed where all water is drained. This way the beds can be watered, or if it rains, water doesn't drip down onto the person's legs. There is no ADA requirements, however, we did take the measurements from someone in an electric wheelchair. Therefore, it works with most wheelchairs.
Donna -----Original Message----- From: Carol Popovic [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, March 10, 2014 7:03 AM To: 'Dory Wegrzyn'; '[email protected]' Cc: '[email protected]'; '[email protected]' Subject: RE: [Community_garden] accessible beds Accessible garden booklet based on a lot of good info already out there: http://together4health.ca/files/BarrierFreeGardens_Guide.pdf -----Original Message----- From: Community_garden [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Dory Wegrzyn Sent: Friday, December 20, 2013 9:59 AM To: [email protected] Cc: [email protected]; [email protected] Subject: Re: [Community_garden] accessible beds 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.commu > nitygarden.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.commu > nitygarden.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.commu nitygarden.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
