April 20th, 2008
Officially, there are more than 1,500 gardens affiliated with the ACGA, but that’s just a drop in the bucket, according to Gerard Lordahl, former president of the ACGA and now head of the Open Spaces Greening program within the Council on the Environment of New York City (CENY).
In reality, there are tens of thousands of community gardens across the United States and Canada, all told, at least 20,000 and maybe more, Lordahl says, run by cities, churches, community groups and rural collectives. “They’re suburban, rural, urban. That’s the beauty of community gardening, that it involves all kinds of locations.’’
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