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QUESTION: Community gardening resources

Submitted by Anonymooose on Tue, 02/05/2008 - 7:52am
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Hi there!

Could you recommend resources for the following areas, please?
- books, websites, articles on how to start a community garden
- books, websites, articles on seed saving and harvesting
- magazines for community gardening

Also, would you happen to know of any existing community gardening libraries or resource centres in North America? Thanks!
Karen

Answers

Answer posted by: christy

There are several links and a bibliography at the following website OASIS NYC. They are mostly for resources in New York, but it is a good starting point.

Also a search for “community garden” at USDA returns 254 hits. The same search at Agriculture and Agri-food Canada retrieves 36 hits for community garden (or community gardens); and - Ontario homepage gets 125 hits for community gardens.

additional suggestion:
I'd recommend getting in touch with the Times-Up Community Gardens group in NYC. They are very active and may have expertise on what other resources are out there. One of their organizers is a librarian, btw.