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A Growth Spurt Continues- 11-23-2011
Judith Jacoby, San Diego Home and Garden
Community gardens are coming of age in San Diego. Throughout the county residents are eager to put down roots and start gardening.
This is part of a nationwide trend; while community gardens have existed in a variety of forms since the late 1900s, the current trend may have more momentum than at any time since the Victory Gardens of World War II. They are part of a movement driven by a desire to grow and eat local food, to know where our food comes from and how it was produced, and to connect with the communities we live in.
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The San Diego Community Garden Network and the San Diego Master Gardener Association developed a questionnaire to use for updating their list and map of community gardens. As part of the Healthy WorksSM School and Community Gardens Intervention, the Master Gardeners and the Network have teamed up with the San Victory Gardens San Diego (VGSD and the SD County Childhood Obesity Initiative (Initiative) to update the map of San Diego Community Gardens and share it with the gardening community.
We are trying to connect with community gardeners across the county to:
· Identify where community gardens currently exist
· Gain better information on when the garden is open to the public, size, eligibility requirements, plot availability, needs, and resources.
· Make community garden information available to the public through a community garden map and contact list (We will ask permission to publish information before posting on the web.)
· Connect local residents with community gardens in need of resources, providing educational opportunities, and / or with open plot availability.
If you are involved with a community garden or garden that is routinely open to the public we would like to ask for 5 minutes of your time to complete the following community garden survey:
The information from the survey will be posted on the VGSD and SDCGN web site and the San Diego Community Garden Facebook Page unless otherwise requested in the survey.