Access to Healthy, Affordable Foods Resource: Community Garden Guide

[HHS and USDA Mid-Atlantic Let's Move! Team]

Community Garden Guide

Posted August 16, 2011

 

As part of Let’s Move! Faith and Communities, First Lady Michelle Obama has challenged congregations and neighborhood organizations to plant gardens in their communities. There are many positive benefits to starting a community garden: increasing access to healthy, fresh food; improving soil and water quality; providing exercise for people within a wide range of physical ability; and creating the opportunity to teach about nutrition, agriculture, and ecology. In short, starting a garden can help make real and lasting change in communities.

The following guide provides a wide variety of resources available to help you start a community garden at your organization or with your congregation.

The Community Garden Guide can be found at http://www.letsmove.gov/sites/letsmove.gov/files/pdfs/LetsMoveCommunityGardenGuide0411.pdf 

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