Significance of Community Gardens

Community Gardens

         As stated by its website, the Mission of the American Community Gardening Association is to build community by increasing and enhancing community gardening across the United States and Canada. The American Community Gardening Association also known as the ACGA is a bi-national nonprofit membership organization of professionals, volunteers and supporters of community greening in urban and rural communities. The ACGA recognizes that community gardening improves people’s quality of life by providing a catalyst for neighborhood and community development, stimulating social interaction, encouraging self-reliance, beautifying neighborhoods, producing nutritious food, reducing family food budgets, conserving resources and creating opportunities for recreation, exercise, therapy and education.          
         The ACGA and its member organizations work to promote and support all aspects of community such as food gardening, landscaping, urban forestry, preservation and management of open space, and integrated planning and management of developing urban and rural lands. The Association supports community gardening by facilitating the formation and expansion of state and regional community gardening networks; developing resources in support of community gardening; and, encouraging research and conducting educational programs.



"The Beginning of the ACGA Coalition - American Community Garden Association." American Community Garden Association. N.p., n.d. Web. 01 Dec. 2014.