Community Garden Needs
The goal of a community garden is to contribute to the food provision, health, economy, and environment of an area. Community gardens bring people together and encourage safe and healthy environments.
Meet the Group
Together we anonymously (and then, not so anonymously) shared our ideas for priorities of a community garden on a local, regional, and global scale.
Results
The class’ priorities were walkability, educational outreach, and healthy lifestyles and food choices. Our group followed closely with the priorities matching walkability and educational outreach, but varying with a unanimous agreement that gentrification is a priority.
For the regional scale, our group’s priorities matched exactly with that of the class’. This demonstrates how the Delphi method can lead to a more expert agreement. Since access to water source, loss of protected areas, and socioeconomic inequalities were all chosen as priorities, they must be imperative to the success of a community garden.
The global impact of a community garden can be hard to judge. This is a general outline of the goals a community garden should aspire to achieve. Once again, our smaller group matches up with the class as a whole. The top three priorities are conservation of forest lands, water quantity and quality, and biodiversity.
These prioritizations guide the final step of the project. The redesign of the HOPE Garden! By knowing what a community garden should accomplish on all these scales, we can better judge and suggest designs for our own local garden. Check out the final project to see how it’s done!