Toolkit for community and school garden organizers

[Northern Berkshire Transition]

Within this Blog Post you'll find a Toolkit that includes innovative models, helpful information, resources, and technical assistance on creating and supporting your community garden.

Below is a list of resources found in the Toolkit (click on a link for information):
Planning Checklist for Organizing a Community Garden
Fundraising Strategies for Your Garden Project
Sample Community Garden Guidelines
2002 City of Burlington Resolution in Support of Community Gardening
Sample Lease Agreement for a Community Garden
Sample Site Plan for a Community Garden
Sample Signs for Community Gardens
Reducing Produce Theft Guidelines
Keys to Success: How to Develop a School, Youth or Community-Based ...
From the Garden Recipe Book

Follow this link to the Toolkit for community and school garden organizers.
http://www.burlingtongardens.org/gardenorganizer.html

Community Garden Resources

Friends of Burlington Gardens is a grassroots nonprofit oranization dedicated to the continued growth and success of community-based gardening in the City of Burlington and across Vermont. Through education and outreach, its goal is to increase food gardening opportunities for people of diverse ages, cultural background, and abilities by providing innovative models, helpful information, resources, and technical assistance.

The group’s successes so far include: helping to establish 25 garden sites in Burlington, developing two successful garden-based education programs; coordinating a succesful statwide mini-grant prgram benefitting more than 100 garden projects, and creating a model community garden web site.