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• Gardener's Favorite Sustainability Savings Tips
• Benefits of a Community Garden
• Other Community Garden Sites in Mesa
• Our Favorite Community Gardening Resources

Mesa Urban Garden (MUG)

• MUG is hiring an education coordinator. The position closes Aug. 4, 2023. Job Description.
• Check out the Mesa Urban Garden Brochure [PDF] for a quick look at all the details.
• Learn more about Mesa Urban Garden In this PowerPoint [PDF]
• Congratulations MUG for receiving an Extraordinary Properties Award!
• Be sure to check with MUG's Facebook page for all the happenings.

There is currently a waiting list for bed leases. Learn more or inquire at the Mesa Urban Garden Facebook page.

Call for Coordinators and Volunteers! MUG is seeking volunteers for garden work days and coordinators to assist with operations, marketing and events. Please look over the following Volunteer Positions [PDF]. Contact Laurie at 480-202-3022

Gardener's Favorite Sustainability Savings Tips

• Composting: Breaking It Down to the Basics [PDF]
• Good local Food is Easier Than You Think [PDF]
• Dig In: Fall is the Best Time to Plant [PDF]

Learn more about community gardening and Mesa Urban Garden by contact Donna DiFrancesco at 480-644-3334.

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Benefits of a Community Garden

A Community Garden occurs when you take a piece of land and share it with friends, neighbors and community groups for growing vegetables, fruits and flowers. Benefits to the larger community include beautifying the area, turning unused spaces into productive spaces and numerous environmental benefits. Many community gardens also provide food to local food banks.

Individual benefits include increasing feelings of community involvement and pride, health benefits from eating nutritionally rich foods and from increased activity for physical health. Community gardens provide "hands-on" learning opportunities about gardening, the natural world, food and nutrition and more. A quote from Mesa's Care Partnership website sums it up best:

Other Community Garden Sites in Mesa

If you know of a Community Garden that we haven't featured, e-mail us.      

• Mesa Urban Garden Facebook page located in downtown Mesa at 212 E. 1st Avenue                 
• North Desert Village Community Garden located at the ASU Polytechnic Campus        
• Harvest of Hope Community Garden at Bethlehem Lutheran Church, SE Corner of 32nd St. & McDowell

Our Favorite Community Gardening Resources

• Growing Food in the Desert - Cultivating Sustainability was presented on Feb. 26, 2022 (we converted the Powerpoint into a PDF). The presentation covers gardening, starting a community or school garden, and how to get technical support for small-scale farming. Links to find copies of handouts or to get to more info are in the pdf.
• American Community Gardening Association
• From Neglected Parcels to Community Gardens: A Handbook, Wasatch Community Gardens
• I Love My P-Patch: A Community Garden Leadership Handbook from Seattle
• Community Gardening in New Hampshire from the Ground Up [PDF]: Great ideas, resources and stories
• Dig In! Steps to Starting a Community Garden [PDF] is a presentation by local gardener, Doreen Pollack.

 "To forget how to dig the earth and to tend the soil is to forget ourselves."    ~Gandhi

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