Welcome to the Growing a Community Garden Digital Library
The GCG is an organic collection of resources culled from experienced gardeners, agricultural extension stations, USDA sites, and other knowledgeable sources. The CGC is for New Englanders who like to get their hands dirty and grow some tasty veggies for their family and their community.
Currently there are five collections:
What is a Community Garden?
Planning a Community Garden
Weeding, Watering and What to Grow
Brief History of a Community Garden
Best Vegetable Cooking Blogs of 2012
There can be no other occupation like gardening in which, if you were to creep up behind someone at their work, you would find them smiling. ~Mirabel Osler
Happy Gardening!
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How to Plan a Community Garden
This document provides an outline of important issues to consider when planning a community garden.
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A Brief History of Community Gardens in the U.S.
Victory gardens were NOT the first community garden.
From Mayor Pingree's potato patches of the 1890s to the thriving urban garden programs of today,…
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Organic Gardening
The Cornell Cooperative Extension has compiled an informative resource manual on how to successfully garden organically.
Community Gardening: An Annotated Bibliography--expanded edition
This source includes brief descriptions of guidebooks and manuals, books, honors and masters theses, articles in academic and professional journals,…
Connecticut Community Gardening
To support community gardening in Connecticut by disseminating information, building communities and claiming land for environmentally friendly use.