Re: where are all the community gardens?


Harriet,
I have a suggestion. Check out the Community Garden Mapping Project website for NYC gardens. Some of the gardens have photos, descriptions and much more 
information.

http://www.cmap.nypirg.org/CENYC/cenycmapsearch.asp?view=default

Feel free to create a link or copy anything you wish.

Lenny Librizzi

1/11/2002 1:59:41 PM, "Harriet Festing" <hfesting@pps.org> wrote:

>Folks
>
>we're launching our new and fairly amazing website today,
>Great Public Spaces, Great Community Places,
>(http://www.greatpublicspaces.org),  The site allows anyone
>to praise or damn the places you live in and visit.
>
>But where, I keep wondering, are all the incredible community gardens?
>and the childrens gardens? It makes my heart weep to see so few of them
>on the website.  People could, I know, go to the ACGA website - but they
>might not... they might not even think of community gardens as great public
>spaces.
>
>So please, do us a favor, go nominate a community garden, or add your
>comments to the few gardens that have been nominated.
>
>And don't forget to add a few scanned photos.
>
>Make my day.  Thanks Harriet
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>To browse the listings, chime in with your opinions, nominate a Great Public
>Space, or a contender for the Hall of Shame:
>http://www.greatpublicspaces.org
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>Harriet Festing
>Project for Public Spaces
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>New York, NY 10014
>hfesting@pps.org
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