Re: community gardening research ideas

L* L*

A number of years ago ACGA published a monograph on research priorities. I will dig it out and see how to make it 
available to those who don't have a copy.
Lenny

8/23/2001 1:40:40 PM, "Anna Wasescha" <ariel@tc.umn.edu> wrote:

>I attended a conference on food and society here at the University of
>Minnesota a few months ago.  Most of the attendees were academic researchers
>and graduate students.  I expressed to all the ones I met while hosting
>tours of my community gardens that we need scholarship to back up our claims
>about the benefits of community gardening.  These faculty are great allies
>of the work we do and we need to keep opening the doors between their world
>and the grassroots world where most of us garden.
>
>In particular, Ardyth Gillespie (an Associate Professor in the Division of
>Nutritional Sciences at Cornell University working in community nutrition),
>asked me for specific ideas for researching community gardens.  I plan to
>send her some suggestions but I wanted to open it up to the list serve
>because we all have different perspectives on community gardening.  Ardyth
>advises graduate students who are looking for direction for their research
>projects.  Please send her your ideas at AHG2@Cornell.Edu
>
>Thanks -
>
>Anna Wasescha
>Farm in the City and ACGA list manager
>1312 Dayton Avenue
>St. Paul, Minnesota  55104-6440
>651.646.8733 (phone)
>651.646.0034 (fax)
>ariel@tc.umn.edu
>
>
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