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Articles about Community Gardens
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Community Garden Drought Plan: Priorities and Recovery
Build a community garden drought plan with local triggers, water priorities, crop triage, conservation steps, stop conditions and recovery procedures.
Community Garden Flooding: Runoff, Soil and Crop Decisions
What to do after floodwater reaches a community garden: close the site, document the event, decide what happens to crops, test soil and reopen with evidence.
Community Garden Plot Skills: Ten Guides for Your Plot
Ten community garden plot guides in order: plan the plot, test soil, water by evidence, manage weeds and pests, extend the season and handle the harvest.
Community Garden Produce Sharing, Donation and Distribution
Choose how garden produce is shared, given away or donated: six distribution channels, a release standard, fair access, simple records and stop conditions.
Community Garden Programs: Seed, Tool and Compost Systems
Seven guides for shared garden programs: seed and tool libraries, community compost, workshops, mentoring, and sharing or donating produce.
Community Garden Resilience: Drought, Heat, Flood, Recovery
Nine community garden guides for hard seasons: continuity planning, drought, heat, flooding, water failure, theft, land loss and leadership breaks.
Community Garden Vandalism, Theft and Security Guide
A calm approach to community garden vandalism and theft: name the problem, respond to incidents, weigh fences, lighting and cameras, and keep people safe.
Community Garden Water Outages and Irrigation Failure
An eight-stage response for a community garden that loses water: confirm the failure, protect the system, triage crops, check backup sources and recommission.
Community Gardens: Growing Competence Before the Emergency Arrives
A community garden is not just a place to grow food. It
Community Resilience: Build Connection Before a Disaster
Four ways to build community connection before a disaster: faith groups, community gardens, neighbor networks and CERT. Sourced guides and simple first steps.
Extreme Heat and Volunteer Safety in Community Gardens
Plan garden workdays for extreme heat: decide in advance, change the work, provide water, rest and shade, recognize heat illness and know when to cancel.
Fermenting and Pickling Garden Produce: Safety and Limits
Tell refrigerator pickles, tested shelf-stable pickles and fermented vegetables apart, and learn what salt, vinegar, temperature and pH can and cannot do.
Freezing Garden Produce: Preparation, Packaging and Storage
Freeze garden produce well: judge the crop, prepare and package it, plan freezer capacity before harvest day, handle a power outage and thaw food safely.
Garden Leadership Failure and Recovery | Community Gardens
Recover a community garden after a leadership break: cover essential functions, build a temporary bridge, reconcile money and records, and rebuild in stages.
How to Find and Join a Community Garden Near You
Find a community garden near you using the ACGA directory, your county extension office, or your city parks department. What to expect, what to bring, and how to get off the waitlist.
How to Plan a Food Bank Donation Garden Around Demand
Build a donation garden around recipient demand, harvest timing, food safety, storage, transport, volunteer capacity, rejection handling and feedback.
How to Start a Community Garden From Scratch
The step-by-step guide to starting a community garden. Land acquisition, municipal approvals, insurance, water, plot layout, and the founding committee. From idea to first planting day.
Making the Most of Your Community Garden Plot
How to maximize a 4x8 or 10x20 community garden plot. Succession planting, vertical growing, soil building, companion planting, and season extension.
Planning What to Do With Surplus Garden Produce
Triage a garden surplus before it spoils: screen for suitability, put the harvest on a quality clock, route it by capacity and plan each preservation batch.
Preserving the Garden Harvest: Freeze, Dry, Can, Ferment
Five guides for a garden surplus: decide where the harvest goes, then freeze, dehydrate, can or ferment it using tested methods and clear stop conditions.
Running a Community Garden: Bylaws, Agreements, and Conflict Resolution
Bylaws template, plot agreements, conflict resolution, treasurer basics, insurance, and volunteer coordination. The work that keeps community gardens alive past year two.
Running a Community Garden: Roles, Workdays and Records
Five guides for keeping a community garden working: roles and rules, volunteer workdays, leadership handoff, the annual calendar and a yearly audit.
Safe Canning for Garden Harvests: USDA and NCHFP Methods
Safe home canning from garden harvests: tested recipes, acid and low-acid foods, pressure and boiling-water canning, altitude, jar seals, storage and botulism.
School Gardens as Community Infrastructure
K-12 school gardens as community preparedness infrastructure. Grant sources, curriculum tie-ins, summer maintenance plans, and how to make a school garden survive beyond one champion.
School, Faith, Library and Institutional Garden Guides
Eight guides for gardens hosted by an institution: schools, houses of worship, apartments and HOAs, libraries, senior programs and food-bank donation gardens.
Starting a Community Garden: Setup Guides and First Steps
Four guides for opening a new community garden: people, land, water and permissions, accessible design, shared structures and a safe tool system.
What to Do When a Community Garden May Lose Its Land
When a community garden may lose its site: confirm who controls the land, separate rumor from risk, negotiate and plan relocation at once, and inventory assets.
What to Do When the Community Garden Is Failing
A recovery system for a struggling community garden: stabilize the first 48 hours, find the binding constraint, shrink obligations and run a 30-day sprint.