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PROJECT NAME

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Goals/what did we make

The Garden Guide is an informative guidebook that highlights the process and benefits of staring a community garden. The Garden Guide is meant to inspire people to become more active in their own communities and either join or facilitate a community garden. The guide does not just inspire but also makes creating a community garden attainable by laying out step by step how to start one.

What is this?

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What was the problem

This Project was inspired by the works of Ron Finely, South Side Community Land Trust, the numerous political manifestos that have been made, and Zine culture. We wanted to make a project that would combine all of these, to make an accesible book on how to start a community garden

Why did we do this?

Why did we do this?

We want to make Gardening more accessible, to the communities that need it (food deserts, neglected communities, or generally poor urban communities), so not just wealthy communities can experience the community building and strengthening that gardens can give.

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Example 1: East Midlands Community Garden

Firth, C., Maye, D., & Pearson, D. (2011). Developing “community” in community gardens. Local Environment, 16(6), 555–568.

Community gardens generate social capital is by: 

• bringing people together with a common purpose
• create[ing] a meeting place, which enables people to interact and contribute to the creation of community
• activities such as growing, cooking, and eating of food are all sociable and allow people of all ages, ethnicities, and socioeconomic backgrounds to interact informally
• helping to build links with institutions and authorities

Some of the keys to the success of this garden were grassroots initiative, the persistence of community organizers, and Lottery funding grants.

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Example 2: Duncan Street Miracle Garden

Corrigan, M. P. (2011). Growing what you eat: Developing community gardens in Baltimore, Maryland. Applied Geography, 31(4)

Though community gardens do not solve food insecurity, it starts the conversation and gets more people involved in their food system. 

• A constant supply of fresh fruits and vegetables enhances the gardeners’ food security. 
• Gardeners donate over 50% of their produce back to the neighborhood
• More help is needed in the form of education, the addition of food policy councils, and increased financial assistance

Some of the keys to this gardens success was the availability of experienced gardeners, grassroots organization involvement, and city programs put in place.

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Example 3: Haramabee Neighborhood Gardens

Ghose, R., & Pettygrove, M. (2014). Urban Community Gardens as Spaces of Citizenship. Antipode, 46(4), 1092–1112. 

Community gardens can help strengthen neighborhood ties, but are also inherently exclusionary to people with less resources. 

• serve as spaces that counteract material inequalities,including food insecurity and limited green space access... These gardens thus enable participants to challenge racist discriminatory actions, and claim material rights associated with citizenship.
• is only accessible to individuals with physical abilities, knowledge, and time to volunteer. 

Some of the keys to this gardens success was established NGO involvement, large renter population (lack of personal garden), and the lack of community spaces.

Just put the final book here and onward

Final Work (Detail)

Next Steps

1. We would like to look into different methods for distribution
2. Find areas to distribute the pamphletts
3. We would like to dive deeper into the zine format that originally inspired ut
4. We would like to look into other projects and organizations that could help us spread the information
5. Find more organizations and databases to make it easier for people to get resources in their area