Community Gardens
Are you interested in starting a community garden?
Please download, complete, and submit the following form to sfpcgardens@gmail.com. If you have any questions about community gardens or this application form, please email Sister Anna Muhammad at sfpcgardens@gmail.com or give her a call at (413) 214-1237.
| sfpc_community_garden_application.docx |
Do you manage a new or existing community garden?
The Community Garden Management Toolkit contains strategies and techniques to create a vision, leadership plan, and guidelines for your new or existing community garden. Click on the link below to download the toolkit.
| community_garden_management_toolkit.pdf |
Are you interested in urban agriculture?
Click here to read "Food in the City: An Old Way in a New Time," a comprehensive report on urban agriculture in the City of Springfield published by the Springfield Food Policy Council.
This report looks at the broad health, social, economic, and ecological benefits of urban agriculture, and explores types of urban agriculture that may help address issues of food insecurity, food deserts, and poverty in Springfield. The cornerstone of this report is an assessment, using a Geographic Informations System (GIS), of the suitability of city-owned, structure-free vacant lots for agricultural use, and identification of possible changes to infrastructure to better support urban agriculture in Springfield.
This report looks at the broad health, social, economic, and ecological benefits of urban agriculture, and explores types of urban agriculture that may help address issues of food insecurity, food deserts, and poverty in Springfield. The cornerstone of this report is an assessment, using a Geographic Informations System (GIS), of the suitability of city-owned, structure-free vacant lots for agricultural use, and identification of possible changes to infrastructure to better support urban agriculture in Springfield.
