Re: What makes an effective regional CG website?

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Ben,
We developed a Community garden mapping web site for NYC. We felt that it was important to do it as a GIS mapping 
website because we needed to show the gardens in context to open space and vacant land  (potential open space or 
building sites). The information was important to community gardeners and planners to make the case for and decide on 
garden permanency.
Additionally, there was a lack of good information about what was in the gardens, information about open hours, garden 
events, what was grown, photos, etc. So our site contains a page (or series of pages)  for each garden. In some cases 
the information is fairly complete in other cases it is mostly missing. The template is there to feed infomation into as it 
becomes available and there is a place to post the info that is publicly accessible. We already have grad students who 
are supplying us with info and using the site to do research. 
View it at 
www.cenyc.org/maps/index.html

A couple of other web sites you should check for examples of other information that might be helpful:

www.treebranch.com
has a large section on community gardens.

GreenThumbs web site:  www.greenthumbnyc.org

You might search through city farmer   : www.cityfarmer.org
There is a wealth of information there that might be helpful.

I always feel that links are a great way to include a wealth of information on your site. If you find a site that has good info 
just link to that site.

Good Luck,

Lenny Librizzi 

 8/24/2001 3:43:03 AM, ben@windowbox.com (Ben Swett) wrote:

>The Los Angeles Community Garden Council has a budget and skilled volunteers
>cued up to produce a straightforward website.  We need advice!
>
>1.  What features are most useful for gardeners and local garden
>coordinators?
>
>2.  What features are most effective at presenting community gardening and
>the community gardening point-of-view to the general public and the press?
>
>3.  What features are over-rated or not really helpful?  (please respond
>directly if your opinion might hurt the feelings of a list member)
>
>4.  What websites, especially for regional organizations, have good examples
>of #s 1, 2 & 3 above?
>
>Please let us know what's important.  Your knowledge will help us do a good
>job.  Thanks!
>
>
>
>Ben Swett
>Los Angeles Community Garden Council
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