[Community_garden] Dollar value of produce from gardens

Hi friends at ACGA, A family of community gardeners here in Madison weighed most of the produce they harvested this past summer. I want to share their impressive results with you, in case this information could be helpful in your work. 2007 Quann Garden in Madison, Wisconsin - Yields >

[Community_garden] dollar value of produce from gardens

Thank you very much for submitting the specifics of how much (dollar) value this plot was able to produce. I am working on a piece of research looking at the value of school gardens in building community food security and this will fit in nicely with an economic argument. Kindly, Liesel Carlsson -

Re: [Community_garden] Dollar value of produce from gardens

Janet, Thank you for posting that. They got a tremendous amount of good food from their garden. Did they use any space saving strategies such as planting their squash at the edges of the corn and letting the vines run in to the corn? Were most of their plantings in rows or wide beds? One stra