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Community Gardens in Arizona: Community Gardens of Tucson

By Heather Standish. Community Gardens in Arizona: Community Gardens of Tucson. 1989- George Brookbank (University of Arizona Cooperative Extension agent) Hand family donated the lot Rented for cost of water Later garden low priority

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Community Gardens in Arizona: Community Gardens of Tucson

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  1. By Heather Standish Community Gardens in Arizona: Community Gardens of Tucson

  2. 1989- George Brookbank (University of Arizona Cooperative Extension agent) Hand family donated the lot Rented for cost of water Later garden low priority Original shut down in 2006- commercial development, had 30 plots Relies on donations and small fees History

  3. Usually near a church, school, or donated by a private landowner Helped develop gardens for Community Food Bank, Hedrick Acres, and the Mennonite Peace Garden Benedictine Monastery Garden (Midtown - closest to University of AZ) Chaverim Garden (Eastside) Highland Vista Garden Keeling Garden (Midtown) Mountain Vista UU Garden (Northwest) New Spirit Garden (Southeast) Presidio Garden (Midtown) Sabino Vista Garden (Northeast) St. Gregory Garden S.A.R.G. Garden (Downtown) Sunrise Garden Wilson Test Garden Locations Tucson, AZ

  4. Gardening Experts Novices Individuals/Families Volunteer Coordinators Volunteer Groups Who’s Involved Monthly Meeting

  5. Vegetables—no pesticides! -Beans, Peas, Chiles/Chiltepines, Corn, Devil’s Claw, Garbanzo, Greens, Lentils, Okra, Onions, Squash, Tomatoes Flowers/Cacti -Herbs, Indigo, Sunflowers, Wildflowers Grains -Amaranth, Panic Grass, Wheat Other -Cotton, Gourds, Melons, Sorghum, Teosinte, Tobacco, Watermelon Devil’s Claw What’s Produced Amaranth Panic Grass Sorghum Teosinte

  6. Planters Food banks Soup kitchens Farmers’ markets Cultural uses Organic markets WHERE IT GOES

  7. Promote health, knowledge, joyfulness, and community • Successful growing and sustaining of food • Allow everyone an opportunity to garden • Exercise and relievestress • How It Works: -Drip irrigation -3 foot by 20 foot plots Goals/How it works

  8. $15 per month per plot to reimburse water use and pay for equipment-cost to rent a plot $20 a year for just newsletter How to start a garden plot Creating fertile, workable soil Planting and weeding Picking crops Responsibilities

  9. Share knowledge and products Teach everyone about plant life Vacant/misused land into healthy community Purpose/Results

  10. Monthly class with professional gardener Newsletter with tips and activities Collaboration with Native Seeds/SEARCH (NSS) Program to receive 5 free seed packets in exchange for info on how seeds did Interesting Stuff

  11. Community Gardens of Tucson (CGT)- resources, sites, and information about Tucson area gardens Native Seeds/SEARCH (NSS)- NSS conserves, distributes, and documents adapted, diverse, and wild seeds to preserve SW US/NW Mexico culture. George’s blog- founder blogs about the garden and gives tips. Sam Wymer’s (Master Garedener) blog- links and blog about CGT How to Start a Community Garden- links to help start your own community garden Resources

  12. Community gardens of tucson. (2010, July). Retrieved from http://www.communitygardensoftucson.org/main/ The Green pueblo map. (2010). [Web]. Retrieved from http://greenpueblomap.org/maps/GPmap.html Brookbank, G. (2010, June 22). By George! - a blog! [Web log message]. Retrieved from http://communitygardensoftucson.org/blog/ Wymer, S. (2010, April 20). Gardening in tucson [Web log message]. Retrieved from http://www.tucsongardening.blogspot.com/ About Native seeds - search. (2009). Retrieved from http://www.nativeseeds.org/about Seed listing. (2009). Retrieved from http://nativeseeds.org/catalog/index.php?cPath=1 How to Start a garden plot [Video Podcast]. (2009, December 9). TucsonWeeklyTV. Retrieved from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6F0fxjScno Tucson farmers' market. (2010). Retrieved from http://farmersmarkettucson.com/index.html Trujillo, R. (2007). Hand painted gourds. Retrieved from http://desertrtist.com/gourds.htm Horton, J. (2008). How to Start a community garden. TLC, Retrieved from http://tlc.howstuffworks.com/home/community-garden1.htm Community gardening. (2010). Retrieved from http://www.ecosource.ca/commgardening Dc's first annual community garden bicycle hop [Web log message]. (2007, June 25). Retrieved from http://www.gardenrant.com/dc_urban_gardeners/2007/06/gardens-on-two-.html Stallcop, K. (2010). Community garden to spring up on campus. Informally published manuscript, Polytechnic campus, Arizona State University, Mesa, USA. Retrieved from http://asunews.asu.edu/20100127_communitygarden Bibliography

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