The Growing Communities training of the American Community Gardening Association provides just what you are looking for. Become a member is you aren't already. Go to the website www.communitygarden.org You are on the right track, understanding that building community through gardening is the key. Leslie Pohl-Kosbau Friends of Portland Community Gardens
----- Original Message ----- From: "Micaela Cooley" <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Friday, November 21, 2014 11:41:36 AM Subject: [Community_garden] Tools for building community Hello! I work for a program which supports the 70 (and growing) community gardens in Pierce County & Tacoma (just south of Seattle). We have a lot of educational resources for growing vegetables, but we've found the gardening of plants is easy in comparison to the skills required to create a high-functioning community... Are there any of you out there in this wide network of community garden specialists who know of educational resources for the soft skills that are required for gardening in community? Skills may include: * Shared decision making * Planning meetings and work parties * Conflict resolution * Non-violent communication * Communication As an organization which supports community gardens, we want to increase our own skill set as well as the skills of the community gardeners. We would like to avoid creating the wheel and would be so grateful if any of you would be willing to share resources you've used/developed to help build capacity of community gardening groups. Many thanks! [cid:[email protected]] Micaela Cooley, Urban Agriculture Education & Outreach Coordinator Pierce Conservation District PO Box 1057 | 5430 66th Ave. East | Puyallup, WA 98371 501 S. I Street | Tacoma, WA 98405 Phone: 253.306.3457 | Fax: 253.845.4569 Website: www.PierceCD.org<http://www.piercecd.org/> Join our List Serve<https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/harvest_talk>! Promoting the conservation of renewable natural resources in Pierce County since 1949. Follow us on Facebook<http://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/TacomaPierce-County-Community-Garden-Program/217603524929355> -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://list.communitygarden.org/pipermail/community_garden_list.communitygarden.org/attachments/20141121/0e617564/attachment.html> -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: image001.jpg Type: image/jpeg Size: 2227 bytes Desc: image001.jpg URL: <http://list.communitygarden.org/pipermail/community_garden_list.communitygarden.org/attachments/20141121/0e617564/attachment.jpg> _______________________________________________ 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/20141122/86cf0272/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
