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Work on a community project with
neighborhood residents of all ages, beautify your surroundings, learn to
grow flowers and vegetables, benefit from a healthier diet, save money,
generally improve your quality of life… How? By participating in a
community garden project. Learn more information about community and
urban gardening from the selected resources (print and electronic) that
follow.
American
Community Gardening Association
"A national nonprofit
membership organization of professionals, volunteers and supporters of
community greening in urban and rural communities…" The Association
is an excellent resource for those interested in starting a community
garden in their neighborhood.
National
Gardening Association
Founded in 1972, as "Gardens
for All" to spearhead the community garden movement, today’s
National Gardening Association (NGA) continues its founders' goals:
helping gardeners and helping people through gardening. The NGA publishes National
Gardening Magazine, to which Hartford Public Library subscribes. The
NGA Web site includes: a question and answer section, an article library,
a gardener's dictionary and plant name finder, a zone finder, an extensive
list of gardening links, and a kids’ section.
Urban
Agriculture Notes
Since 1978, Canada's Office of
Urban Agriculture has published Urban Agriculture Notes by City
Farmer. It has articles on community gardening as well as a number of
other topics of interest to the city gardener.
Urban
Community Gardens
This site was created for a library
and information sciences course at the University of Illinois in
Champaign-Urbana.
Community_Garden
This is an email list for Master
Gardeners and others interested in community gardening programs.
GardenWeb
Forums
Described as the largest community
of gardeners on the Web, the forums are divided into several lists to make
finding specific subjects easier. The
Community
Garden Forum is "for the
discussion of all aspects of organizing and participating in community
gardens."
 Adam, Judith.
The
New City Gardener: Natural Techniques and Necessary Skills for a
Successful Urban Garden. Willowdale,
Ontario: Firefly Books, 1999. (call
number SB 453 .A32 1999)
Boston Urban Gardeners.
A
Handbook of Community Gardening.
New York: Scribner, 1982. (call number
SB 457.3 .H26)
Don, Monty.
The
Urban Jungle: the Simple Way to Tame Your Town Garden.
London: Headline, 1998. (call
number SB 450.97 .D65 1998)
Huff, Barbara A.
Greening
the City Streets: the Story of Community Gardens.
New York: Clarion Books, 1990. (call
number SB 457.3 .H84j)
Jobb, Jamie.
The
Complete Book of Community Gardening.
New York: Morrow, 1979. (call
number SB 457.3 .J62)
Anderton, Stephen.
Urban sanctuaries : peaceful havens for the city gardener Portland,
Or.: Timber Press, 2001.
 Wise, Victoria.
The
Gardeners' Community Cookbook. New
York: Workman Publishing, 1999. (call
number TX 715 .W7893 1999)
The Calla Hickox Burr Memorial Fund makes it possible for the Library
to assemble a large gardening collection, ranging from picture books to
adult books, so you can make gardening (and reading) a family activity.
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The Hartford Public
Library offers electronic access to articles through its
iConn database service
for patrons of Connecticut libraries. You will need your library card to log
into the database.
Ableman, Michael. "The Quiet Revolution." Earth Island
Journal. Autumn 2000: p41+.
Chavis, Melody Ermachild. "Strong Roots." Sierra.
May-June 1997: p48+.
Iannarelli, Joe. "West Side 'Warriors' Discover Green Thumbs"
Business First of Buffalo. July 31, 2000: p15.
Pfeiff, Margo. "City of Gardens." Canadian Geographic.
January 2001: p64+.
Growing a Garden and a
Community
Neighborhood Networks, a community-based initiative of the U.S. Department of
Housing and Urban Development (HUD), produces a series of guides. Growing a
Garden and a Community is one of them. (SuDoc number HH 13.16/4:991)
Audubon
Society's Butterfly Gardening. New
York: MasterVision, 1996.
(Video –
Instructional/A)
Container
Gardening from the Ground Up! [S.l.]:
American Production Services, 1997. (Video
– Instructional/C)
Gardening
Naturally, Getting Started.
Bethesda, MD: TLC, 1994.
(Video –
Instructional/G)
Knox
Parks Foundation, Inc.
75 Laurel Street
Hartford, CT 06106
(860) 951-7694
- Hartford has 18
community
garden sites.
- Contact Hartford Community Gardens [Knox Parks Foundation] to learn
about community garden opportunities.
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