Community Gardening as an Organizing Strategy

Abstract

Community gardening is a novel application to community organizing. The point of this article is to place this mode of organizing in a community-based perspective. By becoming community-based, this organizing strategy will become organic and help to strengthen community bonds and promote collective action. In a community-based project, local knowledge and control are paramount. But for this change to occur a proper, underlying philosophy must be developed. Without this philosophical change, many projects that strive to be community-based are merely community-situated. This philosophical change is also discussed, so that community gardening can become a bona fide community-based initiative.

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community community-based work dialogue community-engaged gardening radical outreach molecular revolution

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