What are community gardens?
an area of publicly or privately-owned land, rooftop, or other space managed and maintained by individuals, and/or non-profit organizations, to grow and harvest food crops and/or non-food ornamental crops for personal or group use, consumption or donation
Source: City of Cambridge Official Plan, 2011
Community gardens may be:
- Separate plots
- Farmed collectively, and/or
- Including common areas to be managed and utilized by community garden members.
Source: Photo by Jonathan Kemper on Unsplash
Related reports in the Region
- Gardens for Healthy Schools (.pdf)
- Cultivating Community: Connecting community gardens and crime prevention
- The Diggable Communities Collaborative: The power of partnership in strengthening community gardens in the Region of Waterloo
- Finding the relationship between designing of community gardens and issues of local economic development