Meeting the Mid-summer Challenge Mid-summer can be at once the most rewarding and the most challenging part of community gardening. It’s when the reason for the season really kicks in: plants are more robust and filling up your garden with green, your harvests are beginning to be more substantial and your early season work is […]
Resources Referenced in the Housing Toolkit
Click here for more info on how to get your own complete copy of the Edible Landscaping & Community Gardening Toolkit for Affordable Housing Communities. Background Reading ONLINE ONLY: Integrating Food Access & Affordable Housing (Vermont Housing & Conservation Board) ONLINE ONLY: Advocate’s Guide: A Primer On Federal Affordable Housing & Community Development Programs (National […]
Toolshed Tips: Garden Volunteers
Top Ten Ideas Worth Sharing: Supporting Garden Volunteers
Toolshed Tips: Garden Communications
Garden Communications Before the growing season’s in full swing, make sure there are systems in place for communicating information, ideas, and concerns with and among those involved with your community or school garden (i.e. gardeners, volunteers, teachers, students). To assess your garden’s communications, start with some basic questions: How do your garden’s coordinators relay announcements, […]
Toolshed Tips: Sharing the Work
Getting Garden Volunteers Off to a Good Start: When managing the communal work of your garden, preparing your garden volunteers early in the season will help keep them engaged for the long term. Get these volunteers off to a good start by… Setting up systems for effective communication that are easy to use and manage. […]
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