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The Community Garden as a Tool for Community Empowerment: A Study of Community Gardens in Hampden County

The purpose of this study is to gain a better understanding of how community gardens can catalyze positive change in an urban environment, to determine and catalog the impacts, and to learn about their importance to small-scale agricultural production. The study surveyed neighbors of the two umbrella organizations community gardens, The Nuestras Raices of Holyoke and Growing the Community of Springfield, who strive to ensure that local families gets enough food to feed their families on a daily basis.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:UMASS/oai:scholarworks.umass.edu:theses-1447
Date01 January 2009
CreatorsKearney, Shanon C.
PublisherScholarWorks@UMass Amherst
Source SetsUniversity of Massachusetts, Amherst
Detected LanguageEnglish
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SourceMasters Theses 1911 - February 2014

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