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2008-2009 Successful Community Gardens Mini-grant Program
2008 VCGN mini-grant recipients community-based gardens
2008 VCGN mini-grant recipients school-based gardens
2008 Burlington School and Youth Garden mini-grant recipients
Toolkit for community and school garden organizers
Publications and plans
from Friends of Burlington Gardens & VCGN members (click links)
Planning checklist for organizing a community or school garden
Fundraising strategies for your community or school garden
Sample community garden guidelines from Burlington VT
Sample community garden guidelines from Brattleboro VT
Photo sampler of allotment style community gardens in Vermont
Sample lease agreement from the Archibald Neighborhood Garden
Sample gardener agreeement from Archibald Neighborhood Garden
Sample site design for a 50 ft x 50 ft neighborhood community garden
Sampler of creative community and school garden signs in Vermont
Minimizing produce pilfering: strategies for community gardeners
Succession planting calendar for raised bed school gardens
"From the Garden Recipe Book" with photos of garden foods
10 steps to collecting and publishing a book of gardener stories
Seedfolks and Vermont Reads classroom activities
Keys to success: how to develop a sustainable school, youth, or community-based garden
10 challenges to sustaining a youth garden and how to meet them
Creating Community Garden Networks
New Directions in Sustaining School Gardens
Design and plans for building a Classic Indoor Garden
Guide to Lake Friendly Lawn Care and Grounds Maintenance
Thirty five years and growing: A history of community gardening in Burlington, Vermont
Resolutions in support of community gardening
2002 City of Burlington Vermont resolution
2004 joint resolution of Vermont legistlature
Information on statewide garden projects
Directories of community-based gardens in Vermont
Web sites for
community gardening
programs in other New England states
Connecticut Community Gardening Association
Knox Parks Foundation
, Hartford CT
New Haven Land Trust
, New Haven CT
Westport Community Gardens
, Westport Ct
Connecticut Community Gardening Association
Boston Natural Areas Network
, Boston MA
Photo: Fenway Gardens, Boston
Fenway Victory Garden
, Boston MA
Northampton Community Garden, Northampton, MA
Somerville Community Growing Center
, Somerville MA
Worcester County community gardens
, Massachusetts
Nuestras Raices
Worcester MA
Urban Garden Resources of Worcester
, Worcester MA
Gilsland Farm Audobon Center
, Falmouth ME
Cultivating Community
, Portland ME
Yarmouth Community Garden
, Yarmouth ME
Southside Community Land Trust
, Providence RI
For additional links to organizations in North America that participate in the American Community Gardening Association, please click on:
http://www.communitygarden.org/connect/links.php#Gardens
Recommended web site resources
Community Garden Toolkit, published by University of Missouri Extension
Sample registration form for a community garden
From Neglected Parcels to Community Gardens: A Handbook, by Brian Emerson
Community Garden Organizer's Handbook
American Community Gardening Association
Starting a community garden
What good is comm
unity greening?
Australian City Farms and Community Garden Network
A resource guide for information on urban community gardens
Chicago Botanic Garden
Horticultural Therapy Resources
City Farmer / Urban Agriculture Notes (Canada)
Cornell University Garden-Based Learning
Cornell University Vegetable Gardening Resources
Garden Works
Research and public policies related to community gardens
Iowa State University Extension
Harvesting and Preparing Vegetables for Exhibit
National Gardening Association
Mapping out the Schoolyard
Pennsylvania Service-Learning Alliance
Community gardening: A School and Neighborhood Project
Center on Hunger and Poverty, Tufts University
Community gardens in rural regions: enhancing food security and nutrition
University of Vermont Extension
4-H Growing Connections
World Hunger Year
Food Security Learning Center / Community Gardens
Recommended books for garden organizers
Patchwork: stories of gardens and community
by Beret Halverson and Jim Flint
Digging Deeper: Integrating gardens into schools and communities
by Joseph Kiefer and Martin Kemple
Schoolyard Mosaics: Designing gardens and habitats
by the National Gardening Association
City Bountiful: A Century of Community Gardening in America
by Laura Lawson
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Friends of Burlington Gardens & the
Vermont Community Garden Network
180 Flynn Avenue Studio 3
PO Box 4504
Burlington, Vermont 05406-4504
802-861-GROW
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Resolutions in support of community
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