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Organic Community Gardening For The Poor
Organic Community Gardening For The Poor
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General Information
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Community_gardening
PURPOSE
Community gardens provide access to fresh produce and plants as well as access to satisfying labor,
neighborhood improvement, sense of community and connection to the environment. They are publicly
functioning in terms of ownership, access, and management, as well as typically owned in trust by local
governments or nonprofits.
A city’s community gardens can be as diverse as its communities of gardeners. Some choose to solely
grow flowers, others are nurtured communally and their bounty shared, some have individual plots for
personal use, while others are equipped with raised beds for disabled gardeners.
Community gardens encourage an urban community's food security, allowing citizens to grow their own
food or for others to donate what they have grown.[5] The gardens also combat two forms of alienation
that plague modern urban life, by bringing urban gardeners closer in touch with the source of their food,
and by breaking down isolation by creating a social community. It has also been found that active
communities experience less crime and vandalism.
Community garden advocates point out that locally grown food decreases a community's reliance on
fossil fuels for transport of food from large agricultural areas. It also decreases the level of fossil fuels
used in agricultural machinery, since more of the work is done manually.
Growing Power
http://growingpower.org
Growing Hope
http://growinghope.net
Green Guerillas
http://www.greenguerillas.org
Green Thumb
The largest community gardening program in the country
http://greenthumbnyc.org
Growing Communities
http://www.growingcommunities.org.au
BOOKS:
Community Gardening; by Elizabeth Tehle Peters
http://books.google.com/books?id=Fg677OXothEC
Growing Communities: How to Build Community Through Community Gardening; by Jeanette Abi-Nader
Cultivating community: vacant lot agriculture in New York City; by S Jesse Zwick
http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/542448818
Entrepreneurial Community Gardens: Growing Food, Skills, Jobs, and Communities; by David Campbell
http://books.google.com/books?id=d0i-D2bolXQC
Edens Lost and Found: How Ordinary Citizens Are Restoring Our Great American Cities; by Harry Wiland
http://edenslostandfound.org
Creating community gardens: a handbook for planning and creating community; by Dorothy Johnson
http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/28203340
The community garden book: New directions for creating and managing; by Larry Sommers
http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/10340944
http://www.librarything.com/work/3065035
Community Gardens: A Celebration of the People, Recipes and Plants; by Penny Woodward
http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/68208573
http://www.librarything.com/work/4274600
Creating Community in the City: Cooperatives and Community Gardens in Washington, D.C.; by Ruth H.
Landman
http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/27067143
Digging Deeper: Integrating Youth Gardens Into Schools and Communities; by Joseph Kiefer
http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/41174314
Struggle for Eden: Community Gardens in New York City; by Malve von Hassell
http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/47283044
Harvest of the Suburbs: An Environmental History of Growing Food in Australian Cities; by Andrea
Gaynor
http://books.google.com/books?id=RzdnGfMi8dcC
http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/69676337
Urban Wilds: Gardener's Stories Of The Struggle For Land And Justice; by Cleo Woelfle-Erskine
http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/60955199
http://www.librarything.com/work/2461552
DVD: Hunger no More: Faces Behind the Facts; producer: Burton Buller
http://www.ncccusa.org/hunger
HEATING GREEN HOUSES with SOLAR HOT WATER and radiant heating systems
(Using the floor as a Thermal Mass for Retaining Heat at Night - see THERMAL MASS)
http://www.radiantsolar.com http://www.solargenix.com http://www.radiantec.com
http://www.radiantcompany.com http://www.wirsbo.ca http://www.heliodyne.com
http://www.twapanels.ca http://www.thermotechs.com http://www.thermomax.com
http://www.orange-energy.de
Free Installation Manual: http://www.radiantec.com/installation.htm
Solar Water Wall for Passive Solar Heating http://www.solar-components.com
http://www.growerssupply.com
Water Wall Design http://www.scribd.com/doc/30402057
Polymax Water Wall Bag http://www.growerssupply.com
Water Walls-Thermal Mass http://www.slosustainability.com
Vertical indoor Garding: http://www.vertigro.com http://www.omegagarden.com
http://www.growingedge.com/magazine/back_issues/view_article.php3?AID=170320
bring sun light indoors to grow food: http://www.sunpipe.com http://www.led-grow-master.com
BOOKS:
Energy Conservation for Commercial Greenhouses; by John Bartok http://www.growingedge.com
Biodynamic Greenhouse Management; by Heinz Grotzke
Greenhouses for Homeowners and Gardeners; by John Bartok
http://www.growingedge.com/store/books_multimedia.php
Complete Greenhouse Book, Building and Using Greenhouses from Cold-Frames to Solar Structures; by
Peter Clegg
Complete book of the Greenhouse; by Ian Walls
Greener Greenhouses; http://www.growingedge.com/store/books_multimedia.php
Greenhouse Gardener's Companion; by Shane Smith
Building Your Own Greenhouse; by Mark Freeman
Gardening Under Cover: A Northwest Guide to Solar Greenhouses, Cold Frames; by William Head
Building and Using Cold Frames
Polytunnel Companion; by Jayne Neville
Gardening Under Plastic: How to Use Fleece, Films, Cloches and Polytunnels; by Bernard Salt
Starting Early Flowering and Vegetable Plants Under Glass; by Charles Nissley
FOOD BANKS
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SUSTAINABLE TECHNOLOGY
http://journeytoforever.org
http://sustain2tech.insanejournal.com
http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/209593045
http://www.librarything.com/work/214837
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