Lessons from a a failed community garden*. A discussion paper on the sustainabilty of community gardens.

The author highlights the advantage of the Manukau City Council Parks teaching garden model has when compared to the many other types of community garden that rely on high levels of volunteerism, lack sufficient funds and where productivity is often constrained by a paucity of horticultural/gardening knowledge and adherence to woolly thinking around “organic” production when a pragmatic approach is required”.

An actual example of a failed garden which wasted valuable community resources is given.

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A review of the those gardens established under the Growing for Health Teaching Gardens program initiated by the author  in 2004 is proposed in 2019 for publication by Top Read Publishing in 2020