CB145 Community Building through Urban GardeningIn the US, more than 23.5 million people live in food deserts or low-income areas with limited access to grocery stores and healthy food alternatives. Often these neighborhoods also have vacant lots that contribute to neighborhood blight. Organized communities throughout the country are taking things into their own hands and tackling both issues at once by turning these vacant lots from eye-sores into vibrant and productive urban gardens. Learn about the benefits of urban gardening for building community, stabilizing neighborhoods and providing fresh and healthy food alternatives. Through a case study and in-class exercises we’ll learn how to select sites for gardening, how to design and develop a garden for maximum use and impact, how to organize and operate the garden, and how to connect a community garden to existing neighborhood assets such as schools and community building and economic development activities such as farmers’ markets. We’ll also explore strategies for taking urban gardens to scale and how to tap into local, regional and national urban gardening networks.Course length: 2 Days Tuition: $ 445 Course counts toward a professional certificate: No |
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