American Community Gardening Association Annual Conference

American Community Gardening Association Annual Conference

August 10-13, 2006

Los Angeles, California

"Rooting for the Future" is the theme of this conference that includes hands-on workshops, keynote speakers, a film festival, and visits to parks, school gardens, community gardens, and other green spaces in the Los Angeles area. The ACGA Annual Conference brings together hundreds of individuals from across the United States, Canada, and abroad, who are engaged in all aspects of gardening and greening.

 http://www.communitygarden.org/workshops.php

ACGA's 27th Annual Conference

Workshops

FOOD SECURITY

• Community Garden Health Promotion, Jane Argenti, Kaiser Permanente, Harbor City, CA
• Gardens Are Just the Seed--Growing Greater Food Programs, Rhonda Teitel-Payne, The Stop Community Food Centre, Toronto, ON
• Strategies for Addressing Local Food Security, Mark Vallianatos, Francesca de la Rosa, & John McCombs, Center for Food & Justice, Los Angeles, CA
• Field to Market: Developing a Community Farmers' Market, Melissa Guajardo, Health Education Council, West Sacramento, CA
• Lessons Learned from Heifer's Urban Agriculture Initiative, Rigoberto Delgado, Heifer International, El Paso & Don Lambert, Gardeners in Community Development, Dallas, TX

PUBLIC POLICY

• Community Gardens in New York City as Seen by a Berlin Social Scientist, Elisabeth Meyer-Renschhausen & Kristof Kotanyi, Ag Kleinstlandnirtschaft, Berlin, Germany
• Community Greening in a Post-Katrina New Orleans, Keith Tidball, Cornell U. Dept. Natural Resources, Ithaca, NY
• Creating a Community Garden Network, Jim Flint, Friends of Burlington Gardens, Burlington, VT
• Diggable City, Leslie Pohl-Kosbau, Portland Parks, Portland, OR
• The Farm Bill, Andy Fisher, Community Food Security Coalition, Venice, CA
• Land Trusts as a Garden Preservation Strategy, Tsilah Burman, LA Land Trust, Los Angeles, CA & Betsy Johnson, South End Lower Roxbury Open Space Land Trust, Boston, MA
• Land Use Policies, Lisa Feldstein, Land Use & Health Project of Public Health Law Program, Los Angeles, CA
• Starting Over - Lesson learned from the Relocation of Community Gardens in NYC, Edie Stone, GreenThumb & Erika Svendsen, U.S. Forest Service, New York, NY
• Taking it to the Streets: How Vancouver's Green Streets Volunteers Have Transformed Their Neighborhoods, Terry Dixon, Green Streets Program, Vancouver, BC

GROWING THE ORGANIZATION

• Benefit by Thinking Outside the Box, Karen Davis, City of Lake Oswego, Lake Oswego, OR
• Creating Community In the Community Garden: Outreach Examples from The Learning Garden, David King, Venice HS Learning Garden, Los Angeles, CA
• Fences, Theft & Vandalism, A Discussion, Sally McCabe, Pennsylvania Horticultural Society, Philadelphia, PA
• How to Start a Community Garden, Sally McCabe, Pennsylvania Horticultural Society, Philadelphia, PA
• It's Not Just About Fund Raising Dollars! Gwenne Hayes-Stewart, Gateway Greening, St. Louis, MO
• Participatory Planning as a Tool for Building a Community Garden, Rory Klick, Nature of Things, Lake Villa IL
• Program Assessment: Evaluation Doesn't Have to be Painful! Planning & Identifying the Desired outcomes of Youth Gardening Projects Using the Logic Model, Ann Gachuhi, IL Extension, Hoffman Estates, IL & Rory Klick, Nature of Things, Lake Villa, IL
• Show Your Gardens to the World, Lenny Librizzi, CENYC, New York, NY
• Tapping Resources: El Monte's First Community Garden, Cathie Chavez, El Monte Community Garden, Los Angeles, CA

GARDEN DESIGN & HORTICULTURE THERAPY

• Art & Culture: Art in the Garden, Ethnobotany, Cultural Expression, Don Boekelheide, Urban Ministry Center, Charlotte, NC
• Community Gardens as a Sustainable Model of Urban Open Space Design, Daniel Winterbottom, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
• Community Greens: Shared Parks in Urban Blocks, Kate Herrod, Community Greens, Ashoka, Arlington, VA
• Designing Gardens with Earth, Place & Spirit, Susan Weber, 4 Seasons City Farm Project, Columbus, OH
• Gardening with the Residents of St. Andrew's Centre, Shannon Ross Watson, CG Network of Edmonton & area, St. Andrew's Centre, Edmonton, Alberta
• Overcoming Barriers to Creating Therapeutic Gardens, Francine Praught, Lancaster, PA
• Therapeutic Gardens - Reality and Perspective from Bosnia and Herzegovina, Davorin Brdjanovic & Vanja Mijovic, American Friends Service Committee Ð Community Garden Association of Bosnia and Herzegovina

HORTICULTURE

• Organic Seedling Production, Christof Bernau, Center for Agroecology & Sustainable Food Systems, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA
• Pruning for Community Gardens, Luis Lemus & Ursula Chanse, New York Botanical Garden, Bronx, NY
• Recycle "Useless" Items into "New" Garden Tools, Yvonne Savio, UC Cooperative Extension Los Angeles County, CA
• Seed Saving for Small Spaces & Diversified Gardens, Christof Bernau, Center for Agroecology & Sustainable Food Systems,University of California, Santa Cruz, CA

YOUTH

• CFAITC's Resources, Dena Gibbons, CFAITC, Sacramento, CA, Mary Landau, R.D. White Elementary School, Glendale, CA, & Dianne Swanson, Los Cerritos Elementary School, Long Beach, CA
• Creating a Hands-On HS Gardening Class, Marianne Brown, Diane Pollock, & student, Venice HS Learning Garden, Venice, CA
• Culturally Relevant & Participatory Approach to Engaging Kids, Neelam Sharma, Community Services Unlimited, Los Angeles, CA
• Garden of Eatin': Early Childhood Obesity Prevention, David Haskell, Susan Gilmore, Christine Berman, & Rachelle Boucher, Garden of Eatin', Novato, CA
• Gardening the Missing Experience: Behind the Walls of Incarcerated Youth, Robert Bornt, Farm Hands, Inc., Malibu, CA
• GEO's "Digging Deeper" & "EAT from the Garden" Programs, Lee Jonh Saensavang, Caroline Thao, Ann Marie Kennedy, Grant High School, Sacramento, CA
• Green Youth Food, Angela Mason & Eliza Fournier, Chicago Botanic Garden, Glencoe, IL
• Improving Student Performance with Hands-On Garden Linked Nutrition Education Activities, Deborah Tamannaie, CA Dept. of Education, Sacramento, CA

OTHER

• Seeds Planted & Sown: A History of the US Garden Army (1917-19), Rose Hayden-Smith, UC Div. Ag. & Natural Resources, Ventura, CA
• Open ACGA Committee Meetings:
• Advocacy
• Communications
• Program/Youth
• Research