- The Summery or The Overview -

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Part one The steps in starting a community garden

• Part one A – The Community Group

We talked about how important it is to look at the people that want a garden, and look at, not just what their needs are, but also at what their strengths are.

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Part one B – The Physical Garden

We talked about how to check for the safety of the soil, and ways around any challenges there might be.

We also looked at what the various ways there are to use the area wisely so that people can have a satiating gardening experience.

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Part 2 – Keeping The Community Garden Alive:

Organization and Sustainability

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About Financial Sustainability

We discussed the ways that a non-profit garden group can keep going without needing to ask for money – Finding assets within the neighbourhood

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About Organizational sustainability

A Part – The Community Process:

We looked at how the community process works, like using a consensus, and including all the members and families, and how important the choice of words can be.

B Part – Building Up The Community Group:

The Garden coordinator is an important person in this garden, however not the only one - delegating the workload to the gardeners – not only takes the stress off of the coordinator, but it empowers the gardeners, and gives them an opportunity to practice their leadership skills

Building up the community group is just as important as

building up the soil for a great community garden!