Best Management Practices for Community Gardens
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1 Best Management Practices for Community Gardens Luke Drake Rutgers University Dept. of Landscape Architecture & Dept. of Geography Cook Organic Garden Club New Brunswick Community Garden Coalition
2 Overview Community Garden Diversity Management in Practice Urban, Suburban, Rural Community Gardens Management Vignettes Photo: Luke Drake
3 Main Takeaways Reflect on your own and others motivation, assumptions, goals Attention to context Networking Photo: Luke Drake
4 Diversity Reasons people join, stay, leave Character of members and neighborhoods Ethnicity, class, gender Built and natural environment Climate Look across cities, you see different practices Photo: Luke Drake
5 New Jersey: The (Community) Garden State Photo: Luke Drake
6 Photo: Maria Torres
7 Photo: Laura Lawson
8 Photo: Luke Drake
9 Photo: Luke Drake
10 Photo: Dave Moscowitz
11 Photo: Luke Drake
12 Photo: Luke Drake
13 Photo: Luke Drake
14 Photo: Chantae Moore
15 Photo: Luke Drake
16 Management in Practice Horticultural Administration Gardener Management Photo: Luke Drake
17 Urban Soil Water Waiting lists Accessibility and Parking?? Photo: Laura Lawson
18 Suburban/rural Fastest growing CG segment Why are people going there? Access and parking Garden maintenance Touring the garden before joining to see the size of plots Photo: Luke Drake
19 Suburban/rural Photo: Luke Drake
20 MANAGING GARDENERS Photo: Jeana Drake
21 Gardener Orientation Photo: Luke Drake
22 Group Activities Work Days Seed Swaps Winter Sowing Photo: Luke Drake
23 Potlucks and Picnics Movie nights Pizza Oven Photo: Daphne Speck Bartynski
24 It takes a community to make it work Weekly, Monthly, Seasonally? Logging Volunteer Hours? Required or voluntary? Rotating schedule? Vacation flags Opt-out fee? Example: Compost Make it a group activity High School students need service hours Give clear instructions Involve cooperative extension Donate compost to other community gardens Photo: Luke Drake
25 Options in Charging for Plots Deposit Penalty Income Cooperative shareholders Beginning of year End of year Year-round higher fee Annual billing tends to work better Photo: Luke Drake
26 Organic? What does that even mean? Different definitions, different interpretations Consequences for gardener and garden mgmt Education at gardener orientation and meetings Photo: Luke Drake
27 Conflict Resolution Squatter within the garden Cut down the tree! Border disputes Land tenure Photo: Luke Drake
28 Letting Go Once I learned to 'let go,' it became so much easier Food is more than (nutrition, culture, socializing, environment) Try to see things from other points of view Photo: Luke Drake
29 WATER AND COMMUNITY GARDENS Photo: Luke Drake
30 Getting water to the community gardens Public supply - Rain barrels - Neighbors gutters Fire Hyrdrants Movement of water within the garden Hoses? Buckets? Barrels? Irrigation? Photo: New Brunswick Community Food Alliance
31 THE COMMUNITY BEYOND THE GARDEN Photo: Luke Drake
32 The community beyond the garden To fence or not to fence Community plots for members and nonmembers Theft Community outreach Photo: Luke Drake
33 Food Distribution Entire garden Dedicated beds Food boxes through church Table outside for passersby Group harvest Sales Photo: Luke Drake
34 Photo: Daphne Speck Bartynski
35 Food Distribution Photos: Luke Drake
36 NETWORKING Photo: Krissy Kopia
37 Photo: Luke Drake
38 Photo: Luke Drake
39 Local Government, Universities, Clubs, Small Business Photo: Daphne Speck Bartynski
40 Sponsors and Fundraising Photo: Luke Drake
41 Sponsors and Fundraising Photo: Luke Drake
42 Connecting Beyond Local to Distant Others Photo: East Brunswick Community Garden
43 MOST IMPORTANTLY: HAVE FUN! & THERE ARE NO GARDEN MISTAKES, ONLY EXPERIMENTS Photo: Chantae Moore
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