Course: SAT 230 Managing Food Production Systems in the Urban Landscape

Reading and Multimedia Assignments

Reading Assignments
Reading Assignments

Community Garden Best Practices Toolkit

The first reading assignment is Food Security News' community garden best practices toolkit.  This document has been prepared for community organizations in Newfoundland but the material applies to any community garden startup.  Read pages 5 through 18 and learn how to identify groups interested in having a community garden, form partnerships, and obtain necessary funding.

Research Regarding the Benefits of Community Gardens

The second reading assignment is related to the benefits of community gardens.  Each link is followed by a summary of the findings of the research that the link connects to.  Read each of the summaries on the page; it is not required that you read each of the linked research projects but feel free to do so if interested!

Note how some of the benefits of community gardens are nutrition-related but how many are also related to the sense of community fostered by such gardens.

P Patch Community Gardening Programs - Rules for Participants

This short reading assignment is the set of rules for participants in Seattle, Washington’s community gardening program (called “P-Patch”).

Start a New P-Patch

Finally, this web page, also from the Seattle, WA P-Patch program describes the process for creating a new P-Patch garden site.  This is full of useful information about locating a site, doing community outreach, contacting municipal officials and more.