Educating residents on how to care for community gardens and other information for a healthy garden

urban gardens

Connecting community gardens and health living in youth. Community gardens served more than just providing healthy foods but a safe place to play for youth to stay active especially for city kids who may not have safe places to play

Finding ways to improving the growth of nutritious food

Ways to estimate food deserts from high, medium and low. This research also includes time duration from home to supermarket and cost of food.

! City bountiful : a century of community gardening in America. [Laura J Lawson] -- Since the 1890s, providing places for people to garden has been an inventive strategy to improve American urban conditions. There have been vacant-lot gardens, and school gardens.

New York City Lower East Side residents fighting against the Mayor of New York, who was trying to bring gentrification into that area. The article focuses more on the large Hispanic community in the Lower East side and gives the history of why and how Community Gardens in the 70's and 80's came about. The community gardens are being threaten by outside developers

New York City Community Forum in 2006 tried to get people involved to protect to keep the land they use for their community gardens. This group of upcoming political actors are fighting for space and it discusses the three parts of community gardens and the importance of each branch.