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American Community Gardening Association: Starting a Community Garden
The ACGA offers a very thorough guide for starting a community garden.

How to Start a Garden as a Community Project
While the sample letters on this Cornell University site focus on school gardens, much of the information can be transferred to community gardens as well.

Community Gardens: Organizing Tips
From Boston Natural Areas Network, these tips contain some information specific to the Boston area. The month-by-month organizer can't be beat!

Community Gardens: Sample Rules and Regulations
Avoid future conflict by establishing garden rules.

Sun City Agricultural Club: Rules & Regulations
More sample rules, from the University of Arizona Cooperative Extension. You will need Adobe Acrobat to read the document.

The Community Garden Book
by Larry Sommers; Gardens for All, Inc., 1984
180 Flynn Ave; Burlington, VT 054501. (802) 863-1308.
This book includes chapters on finding sponsoring organizations and designing the garden site.

Creating Community Gardens
by Dorothy Johnson and Rick Bonlender; Minnesota Green
1755 Prior Avenue North Moderate; Falcon Heights, MN 55113. (800) 676-MSHS
A "handbook that covers all aspects of planning and developing a community garden."

A Handbook of Community Gardening
by Boston Urban Gardeners, edited by Susan Naimark, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1982.
This book includes the basic steps of organizing a garden and finding resources.

How Does Our Garden Grow? A Guide to Community Gardening Success
by Laura Berman, FoodShare Metro Toronto, 1997.
This handbook covers such topics as group committee structures, leadership, effective meeting strategies, fund-raising and community relations, vandalism and safety, and gardening for people with disabilities. It also includes an extensive list of seed companies, reference books, master gardener groups, and community food advisor groups.

Starting a Community Garden
by Helen Harrison and Steven Brachman, University of Wisconsin, 1984?
A twelve page publication issued by the Cooperative Extension Program of the University of Wisconsin.

Urban Gardening Program: The Coordinator's Book
by The Pennsylvania State University/Cooperative Extension Service, 1990?