Useful Links

Local Resources

• Waterloo Region Resources

Community Gardens in Ontario

• Brant Community Garden Network

• Burlington Community Gardens

• City of Barrie Community Garden Program

• City of Pickering Community Gardens

• Community Gardens in Kingston

• Community Gardens in Ottawa

• Community Gardens London

• Hamilton Community Garden Network

• Oshawa Community Gardens

• Peterborough Community Garden Network

• Stratford Community Gardens

• Toronto Community Garden Network

• Windsor Essex County Community Garden Collective

Foundations

• Columbia Basin Environmental Education Network

• David Suzuki Foundation

• Evergreen

• Farm Credit Canada

• Kitchen Gardeners International

• Ontario Trillium Foundation

• Project Orange Thumb

• Recreating Eden

• Scotts Miracle-Gro

• TD Friends of the Environment Foundation

• The Home Depot Canada Foundation

• Tree Canada
  

Research/Resources

• Benefits and Barriers to Implementing and Managing Well Rooted Community Gardens in Waterloo Region, Ontario

• City of Ballarat - A guide to community gardens

• Community Gardening Toolkit University of Missouri

• Community Gardens: A Tool for Community Building

• Community Gardening 101

• Cookbooks

• Cultivating change: Aspirations, realities and limits of community gardens in Windsor, Ontario

• Cultivating Community: Connecting community gardens and crime prevention

• Efficacy of Community Gardens as a Tool to Enhance Food Security

• Garden Policy Scan - Halton Food Council

• Growing urban health: Community gardening in South-East Toronto

• Implementation of Good Agricultural Practices (GAPs) in School and Community Gardens

• Improving Economic Access to Local Foods for Those in Need in Waterloo Region

• Kids Growing: Implementing School-Community Gardens in Ontario

• Public Health Resource Centre

• School Food Gardens in Ontario: Educating for Health and Sustainability

• Success on the Ground: Case Studies of Urban Agriculture in a North American Context

• Sustainability Assessment of the Grow Gardens Social Ecological System

• The Learning Garden: Place-based Learning for Holistic First Nations’ Community Health

• Toronto Community Housing - Community Gardening Manual

• Urban Agriculture Report

• Vancouver - Growing Gardens: A Resource Package on How to Start Your Own Community Garden
  

Agriculture/Food Security

• American Community Garden Association

• Canadian Horticultural Therapy Association

• City Farmer News

• Community Garden Network Sustain Ontario

• Cornell Small Farms Program

• Cornell University

• Food Share

• Garden Ontario

• Improving Economic Access to Local Foods for Those in Need in Waterloo Region

• International Food Policy Research Institute

• Kitchener Master Gardeners

• Master Gardeners of Ontario

• Ontario Ministry of Agriculture, Food, and Rural Affairs

• Resource Centres on Urban Agriculture and Food Security

• Seeds of Diversity

• Soil and Health Library

• Sustain Ontario

• Urban Agriculture Report
  
  

Gardening

• Dave's Garden

• David Suzuki Foundation

• Earth Easy

• Garden.org When you Garden You Grow

• Hortsense - Washington State University

• Mother Earth News

• Natural Resources Canada

• Planet Natural

• Public Health Resource Centre

• The Dirt Doctor

• Urban Agriculture -The Urban Farmer

• What is Organic