Additional Resources for
Community Gardens
Community Gardening ISE
July 14 and 15, 2009
Bill McKelvey - MU Extension - Healthy Lifestyle Initiative
Columbia, Missouri
Be clear about your role
• As a professional, your job is to help groups
move through their process – you are a
facilitator, coach, resource for the group. You
are not the gardener or the garden leader.
• Help groups work through the Ten steps
outlined in the Toolkit – help them
brainstorm, plan, get organized, make
connections, etc.
Additional things to consider while
getting started
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Growing a garden
Creating a garden roster and map
Enhancing opportunities for success
Security and personal safety
Leadership
Making the garden accessible to all
Additional things to consider while
getting started
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Donating food
Funding
Liability insurance
Starting a community gardening organization
Policy and advocacy
Evaluation
Networking
Appendix
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Sample budget
Sample gardener application
Sample gardener guidelines
Sample permission for land use
Additional content
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Stories from experience
Action planning
Soil testing
Asset-based community development
Raised-bed gardening
Questions and comments…
Contact information:
Bill McKelvey
University of Missouri Extension
Healthy Lifestyle Initiative
McKelveyWA@missouri.edu
573-882-3273
Community Gardening Toolkit, University of Missouri Extension publication
MP906,
http://extension.missouri.edu/publications/DisplayPub.aspx?P=MP906